Morals cannot be unmoored from reality. Without knowledge of what’s happening, we cannot effectively apply our principles. In fact, we would often, though perhaps not in this particular case, risk acting in ways counter to our values without realizing it. So I believe a clear understanding of what’s happening is a prerequisite for taking moral action.

However, our moral principles might motivate us to investigate and try to clarify an uncertain situation if another course of action isn’t clearly justified. I think that might apply here.

Fair points but without real evidence one way or the other I can’t just choose to believe something. At best we can say it may be true.

Trees are by far the best at cooling but yes in situations where they won’t fit the other options should be considered.

Yeah I don’t see the point either but I’m just saying fish will eat weird shit sometimes I don’t think that proves they were starving. When it happened to me they were going at it pretty hard it wasn’t just one or two nibbles. That said, I doubt it was the same species so it could be true for that one. But your link seems to be an unsourced statement by PETA which doesn’t seem too credible.

Is this actually true? I’ve had fish do this to me in the wild. Maybe they were starving too but I feel like fish are usually pretty hungry.

I love flying foxes so much. I wish they existed where I live.

You’d better be damn good with your PPE setup if you want to try that shit.

I’m not saying it’s healthy consent, but it’s a form of consent insofar as you are in control of your faculties. Obviously we as individuals should aim higher than that but as far as a legal or moral standard for where you can have responsibility for your actions, I think that’s where the line is. And yeah blurring the line by saying two drunk people having otherwise consensual sex is mutual rape or silly things like that is eroding people’s responsibility for their own actions, as here.

Like if Platner killed a guy in the same condition would you be saying these things? Like oh how could he have prevented it when he was so drunk… I just don’t think that argument has any merit. We are ultimately accountable for our own actions unless we’re so impaired that they can’t be said to be actions.

CR seems to be going to shit lately. Used to be a pretty peaceful country.

I disagree. You may also be afraid of the consequences. I don’t think a normal person with a healthy concept of consent is going to rape someone no matter how drunk they are. It’s people who are close to doing that already that are going to be pushed over the edge by a lack of inhibitions.

As far as drunken consent it’s obviously a bit hazy but I personally think the idea that any amount of alcohol negates consent is a bit silly. When we’re talking about alcohol negating consent we’re talking about people who are impaired to the extent that they either don’t know what’s going on or can’t clearly express their preferences. If you are physically and mentally capable of rape you are obviously not this impaired. In fact I think the muddying of the waters that some people have done here is a bit dangerous as it gives cover for people to behave badly when drunk and claim that they’re no responsible for their actions, which again, I think is nonsense.

You don’t rape someone because you got too drunk. That only happens if you think rape is OK but you’ve been holding yourself back from it. Most of us have been drunk plenty of times without hurting anyone. So I don’t find that argument too convincing.

Plus I think this was after 2013 so maybe he should have taken his own advice and this wouldn’t have happened. If you know you lose control when drunk then ultimately I think you do have a responsibility to stop doing it.

I didn’t realize they were nectivores. I always imagined them eating fruit mostly.

Is there any evidence whatsoever that Platner had grown beyond this incident which was pretty recent anyway?

Yeah everyone wants to act like Ben is the innocent victim and while I agree the other parties did far worse things than he did due to the corrupt usage of government violence, his behavior has also been a bit unhinged and not all of what he’s said in his videos has been completely honest. Could have been handled a lot better imo.

Eucalypt flowers

It’s because of patriarchy. For virtually every culture for the past several thousand years until modern times, women had minimal agency in who they married. So male “fitness” became more about jockeying for position among other men rather than trying to attract women.

It’s also critical race theory, fake news, communism, woke, antifa, and terrorism.

If MAGA had to stop using thought terminating cliches they literally couldn’t even complete a sentence.

Might be that their immune system reacts and adapts to the conditions they’re in. If they’re constantly exposed it may be better at fighting it off than in humans where exposure is intermittent.

That said I’m not too sure about the epidemiology of pink eye and how it is normally spread. Is fecal to eye a normal pathway or is it some other way? What does the evidence show?

Yeah at least on old Reddit it shows something different depending on why the comment is no longer visible. So for example it says Unavailable if someone blocks you.

Thanks for doing that!