• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    we need the original author’s names.

    they need to be on a list somewhere for… additional oversight.

    just saying you don’t come to this ‘scientific conclusion’ in a vacuum, someone needs to check the rest of their… social circle.

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      Well it was a woman philosopher and likely written with the dichotomy in mind that we accept brain dead organ donation while reviling paying people to sell one their kidneys/part of their livers/one of their lungs and also accept surrogacy while reviling this modest proposal.

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      Lois Lowry. Wasn’t this a thing in The Giver?

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          The only thing I took away from reading it in elementary school was the discovery that my english teacher couldn’t identify a pedophile if given a map, a copy of the criminal indictment for pedophilia and a big flashing neon sign that reads “pedophile”…

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              I think this specific one is more down to shifting cultural attitudes, but yeah broadly I certainly agree. Some people…