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[–] axont@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

Warning: 🚨 ⚠️ Hexbearian detected! Everyone, into the posting bunkers! bunker

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But is warning morally justified?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What is your moral justification for posting?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That it's fun to do and informative to others. It might be fun for them too.

The reason I was asking morality yesterday was because that was the main question of the post. America bad and Russia bad are moral questions, so I was asking them as such.

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[–] somename@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I will admit that I am having fun posting.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But is your fun the morally justifiable kind? I'm trying to get to the bottom of this in a truely high-level idea discussion with the morality understander important-high-level-ideas

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[–] somename@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

As a Hexbear poster, I have abandoned my morality and kneel at the altar of the Russo-Sino Satanist.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago*

stalin-heart this is the way comrade

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Is fun moral?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not always but in this case

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What makes it morally justifiable in this case but not others?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That it is benefiting those involved instead of being to their determent.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Is benefiting others morally justifiable?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What is the moral justification for your answer?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's actually axiomatic. I can't really prove or justify why one should be good or bad, or why they should be good or bad to one another. But that good is good and to be strived for is the staring point of the philosophy.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is an appeal to the one true scotsman fallacy

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Look up axioms. You'll see they are the staring points of logical arguments.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Why do you get to define axioms to exclude my definition?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I don't define axioms. It is the general definition commonly used, as recorded (but not decided) by the dictionary. Do you in fact have a different definition?

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Words have the meaning we give them, not always just the original meaning

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Exactly. And the general meaning is the one I just gave.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

But general definition is not stable it changes. You're just saying this in a way to negate my definition. Why do you get to define it?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The majority/community defines it has hasn't changed it yet.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So you're trying to say words have actual meanings?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

They have the actual meaning that the majority or community gives them. But that isn't necessarily static. But you've shown no evidence that it's changed in this case. That's what I've always been saying.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So words have settled meanings when you say they do?

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

What do you mean settled? Do words meaning change? Absolutely. Quick examples from Google are awesome, egregious, awful, terrific, smeart->smart, nice, wicked, presently, etc

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean you feel confindent saying that a word has a meaning that is agreed upon

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes? Sometimes multiple in the case of homophones.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago*

So if someone told you that you were using a word or words incorrectly, because the agreed upon usage of that term was decided, you would accept it and wouldn't pedantically argue that point instead?

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[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, because engaging with hexbears is a waste of time. They are not here in good faith. Either that or they don't know any better, which in practice amounts to the same thing.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My post was an inside joke based on that users previous posts on our instance.

Have you engaged with a hexbear in good faith?

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[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's a fair question and in all honesty the answer is no, because based on what I can easily see and understand of hexbears, they aren't intellectually serious people and to the contrary are more akin to a kind of 4-chan trolling community than anything worth actual intellectual engagement.

I could be wrong, but so far I have yet to see any evidence as such.

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So you wouldn't engage with any of us in good faith, because you've decided that we aren't capable of that

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[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes. That's correct.

I choose not to waste my time. What do you do when dealing with bad-faith actors?

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I just think it's strange to think that people you've never engaged in good faith aren't capable of it.