Well, I’m not going to have any interest in the game now.

My problem isn’t that animals died to make the game. That’s a bad thing, but my actions can’t affect it. They’re already dead. My problem is that this game is going to further extremes than any other game to deliberately include and glorify animal killing. I kinda forgive it in games like BOTW or Horizon because it’s part of the story, they’re just portraying life as it exists for some people. They’re not thinking about their actions. The dragon’s dogma people are. They are intimately aware of the fact they’re glorifying death, they took the time to think about it and said “that’s a good thing”.

Western atheism and antitheism often exist as reactions to Christianity on a factual or ethical basis, while remaining within a Christian cultural and moral context. Historically, Christians and atheists have worked together to attack other religions, such as in the case of the stolen generations in Australia or the cult panic in America. This pattern of behaviour is counterintuitive if you’re culturally Christian (as most atheists are), but from a broader cultural perspective it’s kind of obvious. Christianity and white atheism exist as offshoots of the same history in the same way that Catholicism and Protestantism do.

If you have an actual understanding of pre-roman polytheism, then you’re capable of seeing the difference between belief and worship. A difference Christians have tried to erase, and white atheists have not challenged. Giving up cultural Christianity is beyond most white atheists’ ability to even imagine. What I call cultural Christianity, they would just as soon call “common sense” or “reality”.

Also I’ve never met an antitheist who has spent longer than an hour thinking about whether they’re advocating cultural genocide of indigenous people.

Sounds like the Netherlands is doing things right.

Cops can’t solve bad driving. Fear of punishment is not an effective deterrent. We know this because we’ve done the psychology and looked at the numbers. Unsafe driving is an infrastructure problem. In my country, people leave enough space between cars. It’s not because we have more police than yours, it’s because we have safer designed roads. Every traffic accident that causes a death is an infrastructure failure.

There are enough dogs in the world. Adopt.

People are lazy and don’t like thinking. They judge based on first appearances. It can be more effective to use a picture of an animal that looks like it’s suffering. Most people aren’t familiar with whale microexpessions and think this whale looks happy.

The article speaks as though DeSantis is a person, which obviously implicitly platforms the idea that the self exists as a distinct entity. This is not a universally recognised truth; Buddhism and some other Asian religions do not recognise it. The article is biased and refuses to address the cultural assumptions put into its writing.

Yes, this fact means that everything you’ve ever read is biased. This is because it’s true, everything is biased. Everything is culturally relative. Reality is a social construct and every piece of journalism which claims the existence of reality is biased.

The gay spock problem is when you have two characters interacting who have the same pronouns, and it gets confusing. For example,

He brushed his hair aside and spoke gently into his ear, “you are my one true love, my light and laughter, my reason to live.”

Who’s the one speaking? Kirk or Spock?

Likewise, if Alice and Barbara or Adam and Bob are your two example people, you’ll run into the gay spock problem.

Fun fact: the problem this is a solution to is known as the gay spock problem

In Europe it’s more common to drink socially, in America it’s more common to drink to be numb. There’s a big psychological difference between a glass of wine at the family dinner table and a beer in front of the TV to forget about work, even if the amount of alcohol is the same.

Who’s that?

The word “narc” is a slur, that almost always marks out the user as a self-identifying “victim of narcissistic abuse”. It implies a number of incorrect generalizations that have already unfolded quite neatly in this thread. It has definitely become a negative term.

Personally, I would ban all victim lingo. People on “narc abuse” subs use this language to create/enhance their group identity, which is based on a number of incorrect assumptions; “I got really hurt, so my partner is deffo a narcissist”, “all people with NPD, or any degree of narcissism are monsters”, “self-aware narcissists don’t exist”, “all of them are abusers”, just to mention a few.

We are not allowed to post on those subs. I have never met any of those people, certainly never abused any of them, yet if I post in their space, I will get banned instantly, based on the fact that I have a certain personality disorder. There is a very good reason for that; god forbid that a Narcissistic person genuinely interested in dialogue would burst their bubble, disrupt the story they tell each other.

Yet they are free to post on subs that were created to support Narcissists; free to throw about their negative assumptions, demand explanations for their woes, or downright insult us.

I do not enjoy being a punchbag for “victims”, so I would see these discrepancies addressed, and limiting the use of the word “narc” to an appropriate context would be a welcome step in that direction.

Second link in the list.

Some people saying not to use mental disorders as insults:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/drawing-the-curtains-back/202204/narcissism-considered-diagnosis-or-easy-insult

https://www.reddit.com/r/narcissism/comments/hiyfu4/is_narc_a_negative_term_do_we_think_its/fwk18hj/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Negareddit/comments/5lyldh/using_narcissist_as_an_insult_is_ableist/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NPD_Memes/comments/15tirjm/dont_let_anyone_gaslight_you_into_thinking_they/

And some fascists complaining they were called out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcissisticAbuse/comments/a8zfg3/is_narc_a_slur/

https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/nb2co7/ive_been_accused_of_being_ableist_prejudiced/

Have you asked:

• A psychiatrist
• A disability expert
• A pwNPD

I’m not being an asshole. I’m saying slurs are bad. I don’t need an excuse to say slurs are bad.

You called me a slur for my mental disorder to my face a couple hours ago. https://lemm.ee/post/20523475

And in another recent post you admitted that you’re fully aware I have NPD, so it was 100% intentional.

OP is a transphobe and a lesbophobe who calls disabled people slurs when he doesn’t like them

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I think that science is incompatible with atheism. Particularly the theories of Richard Dawkins, who created and popularised the idea that ideas are living beings, called memes. Dawkins’ theory shows that the gods of various religions are living, acting beings with agency and in some cases a lot of power. Dawkins proved that the gods are objectively real. They’re called egregores.