AdvonKoulthar

AdvonKoulthar t1_j40kl15 wrote

Reply to comment by thelandsman55 in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc

I don’t see how anyone can treat that with any weight either, because you already have to assume people will have no conflicting desires. How will you solve a love triangle with 3 monogamous individuals? What if two people disagree on something being right or wrong?
Scarcity is hardly the only cause for suffering, and that’s the only part that can be solved in a compelling way. That’s what makes it feel like tripe, the biggest obstacle to utopia being ignored and being told ‘don’t worry about it’.
At least a miserable child is a veneer to place over the gaping hole in logic, and people wonder why that makes it more believable? Because it’s at least some semblance of an answer in this made up fantasy world(that also only follows the author’s views and does not reflect reality at all)

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AdvonKoulthar t1_j20fl61 wrote

Reply to TIFU by telling my mom that I was kicked out by littlegirl14

Strange how eerily similar people can be, I have a coworker who was in mostly the same situation. But something I’m more fine pointing out to a stranger is why put so much weight on your mom’s relationship without considering your position? Why wouldn’t your mother take into account her childrens’ feelings? It seems more like she was just lacking information, not that you’ve done anything wrong.

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AdvonKoulthar t1_isnst38 wrote

Reply to comment by ValyrianJedi in Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3

You only have to pay for them to afford food and living quarters— and as many people complain on the internet you barely have to do that and can just get a replacement without an increase in expenditure.

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