• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Even if it were true, and it isn’t, claiming that being rent-seeking pieces of shit is natural still does nothing for me when it comes to justifying a system that rewards being a piece of shit and outright expects it out of people while burning the planet down and poisoning everything in it.

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        At best it’s the naturalistic fallacy since even if it were “natural”, being “natural” doesn’t mean it should continue.

        This shit always irked me, like do those people even have any definition of “natural”? And also how most of them can even spew “natural” with a straight face while beliving god made everything? How does that even work, is human the only being with “unnatural” effects of intelligence or do we need to convince beavers to stop building dams?

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        You can’t get a ought from an is.

        So many smuglords refuse to even begin to accept that. The basis of so many crank pseudo-philosophies is some crude misunderstanding like that.