It's hard for me to see why octopus sex would be the thing that led you to think civilization was failing rather than the 250k needless virus deaths.
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individual sexual choices, good, bad, or horrible, are not the things that lead to societal collapse. those generally involve public policy decisions.
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I mean, otoh, I'm sure, "octopus sex will end civilization" is just a joke not a real analysis. at the same time, we do actually have 250k dead and it's hard for me to see how you could make that joke without thinking about that.
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linking sexual deviance and civilizational collapse just isn't great, in general. even though also you should leave animals alone and not abuse them.
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It clearly wasn't JUST a joke, she clearly seriously believes something along the lines of "sexual degeneracy" being a symptom of our modern age's moral decline
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It's also pretty clear no one actually had sex with an octopus, and isn't Liz B's degree in something that would allow her to parse the extremely salient difference between "erotic" and "sexual"?
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I mean I do kind of wish Lewish hadn't just walked right into it by posting about this topic on Twitter but my sympathy is never, ever with the pilers-on, no matter how bad the tactical error may have been
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