To me that just sounds like "I run the game. You will lose. I will win. You will kneel and be obedient." Damn straight I'm just going to burn it all down out of spite. Tump the board over.
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the logic of spite as presented by Arthur is perfectly clear, however what was presented here was the nakedly solipsistic and sociopathic version. Not even claiming to threaten mass death on behalf of a greater good.
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I am very clear that whatever fun you can have debating this shit in classrooms and dorm rooms, in any real life situation utilitarian logic makes my skin crawl I reject trolley problems, especially when it is explicit that I or someone like me is being laid on the tracks
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Because, for one thing, I don't trust the ruling class to accurately describe the stakes It's their game, they wrote the rules They're the ones who tell you with such certainty "We thought as hard as we could and it's you on the tracks or the whole world"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Why the fuck should you believe that shit Why shouldn't the girl in The Cold Equations pull a gun and say "Okay well check your math AGAIN And if your math really was right, oh well, guess we'll all die"
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This is the logic of abuse that has been laid down over and over again The suffering of the slave class is necessary for the good of the nation Rapes and assaults and harassment must be tolerated because the perp is a pillar of the community
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
"I'm sorry, it's a complicated subject, you don't have the education to understand it, but there's just nothing to be done" Well you're right I'm a big dumb ignorant oaf (also due to circumstances you arranged) but hey sometimes I get in a position to crash the plane
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Looks like you're gonna have to use that big brain you're so proud of to figure out a third option after all! Looks like it's that or we all die! Looks like you big-brained elites find the burden falls back on you because I'M TOO STUPID to understand what must be done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
One of the first and most popular Game Theory 101 examples is the simple game of Chicken You know how you win a game of Chicken when two cars are speeding toward each other You disconnect your steering wheel and throw it away
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Maybe I did, in fact, go to a big fancy school and get the sheepskin for my hours clocked in fancy debatey lecture halls and I got the standardized test score saying I have a superior brain and am therefore held *responsible* to *honestly entertain your opposing views*
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Maybe I am *capable* of engaging in the endless intellectual circlejerk over inherently oppressive ideas and fighting tooth and claw with you for hours every day to prove whether racism is empirically correct But you know what? I don't care
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
I am, so to speak, "precommitting" to siding with the big scary mob My car came with a steering wheel, but it doesn't have one anymore I was one of you but I've renounced all the values and norms of your insufferable subculture
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The Nazis go or we crash the whole plane
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