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That's literally true, but the simple counterargument is that the happiness/suffering conversion coefficient is a matter of one's values and not particularly up for debate - so there's nothing incoherent about, say, the position that your child living a happy fullfilling life for a thousand years but stubbing their toe once is enough suffering to make their life net negative.

This is a great comment. I'll add that anyone thinking about disability ethics should read Two Arms and a Head, lest they start taking too seriously the idea that disabilities have no effect on quality of life.

I agree that there's a lot of space between "considered disabled" and "horrible life", but OP said "suffer their whole life" which I associated with the latter.

Is there some feature comparison of lemmy vs mbin vs other reddit-like platforms? There was some major reason why I didn't like kbin, but I forgot why.

I feel like the tone of “There is NO option to opt out of this unit, it is required for all students to complete” along with “As as science class we will only focus on the scientific theory and evidence.” is suggesting that their religious beliefs are irrelevant when it comes to science, which is far from an apology.

Imagine if you saw an ice-cream stand with a sign saying "The price is 5$/cone. There is NO option to eat icecream without paying. We are aware that there are many cultural and political beliefs on economics. As a capitalist stall, we ONLY provide icecream in exchange for money. We are not trying to change your beliefs, but introducing what our standpoint is.". If you saw that sign, I imagine you wouldn't think "ah, what a totally normal shop", you'd think "oh boy, Something Happened Here".

This email is proactively defensive in the same way. In a saner world, this email would be way shorter or wouldn't exist at all, because you wouldn't need to specify that a particular unit is non-optional, etc. Your screenshot makes me think of USA as more weirdly religious, not less.

What's so hilarious about it?

I don't think the "scientists" circle is there in reality.

A world in which politicians actually needed to justify their actions by scientific research would be way better than this one. Yes, I know this is unreliable and biasable in a million ways, it'd still be better - it's harder to make stuff up via a few intermediaries than to just make stuff up directly. Modern politicians are just linked directly to the twitter circle.

The simpler answer is that stock markets are way older than prediction markets and yet it's not often that you hear about people blowing up factories or murdering people for the sole purpose of manipulating a stock. Similarly, few people would in fact go and help a wildfire spread in order to make money on a YES prediction.

You have no moral obligation to have children at all, even if they'll predictably have a happy life. So if their life will instead be predictably horrible (or if they will predictably ruin the lives of the people around them - plenty of severe mental disabilities seem much less horrible for the people themselves than for their caretakers), it's very reasonable to avoid it.

Thanks, I'll keep that take in my pocket for later. "Your honor, you can't possibly prove that in the future a superintelligence won't be able to reconstruct enough of the victim's brain to resurrect them, and hence they aren't dead and I can't have committed murder!".

I'm very happy Servo exists but if they want, like, a working browser, it's no wonder they chose Chromium.

For comparison, from a recent Servo blogpost: "Servo can now run Discord well enough to log in and read messages, though you can’t send messages yet. [...] We now support enough of XPath to get htmx working.".

Servo has been in development for 7+ years and it's still not able to render modern web. Maybe it never will, since it's impossible to build a new web browser.

That's true, though the simple solution is to not be on such platforms. You do not have to let them "shove it in your face until you can’t help it".