Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by mardifoufs on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:49PM
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I mean I agree with most of your comment! My whole point was that as you said, the entire discussion is not black and white and the debate of what are the limits is far from settled (and never will Be, imo). But that's exactly what makes the whole "Wow muh freedumbz man children should just man up" so ridiculous and completely insipid. It does not acknowledge any of that nuance and basically aims to discredit even the notion that there is a debate to be had.
Obviously my comment was an appeal to extremes (though honestly, the part about discriminating against muslim was literally was a common talking point). But that was exactly to show how smug and dismissive the argument was.
Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by notpachet on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:54PM
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You're right that "mah freedumbz" is a derogative whistle. I should have put a little more effort into voicing my frustration than reaching for the easy virtue signal. It's just so frustrating sometimes, though!
Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by mardifoufs on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:38PM
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I get it! I should've also toned down my original comment so I'm sorry about that. I think everyone is exhausted after the past few years, but it hopefully can't get much worse... right?!
Well, if we're going to go reaching for the fallacy labels -- that's a pretty textbook appeal to extremes. Discrimination against any portion of the population is reprehensible. But the big moral challenge is determining what exactly constitutes discrimination. Where is the line between just punishment under the law, and discrimination?
Society's laws are designed to protect the interests of everyone in that society (without discrimination!) from those around them that would hurt them, whether through malice or negligence. Implicit in those laws is the idea that you seem to be protesting: that in certain situations, Person A knows better than Person B what's good for Person B. Or, as it may be, what liberties to withhold from Person B to protect others from them. That's prison. And as fucked up and inhumane as I think the American prison system is, I don't know whether it's really possible to have a society without _some_ sort of way of withholding certain rights from people for the protection of others.
And yes, that line of thinking absolutely can (and does) slide down the hellchute into totalitarianism. Avoiding either extreme of that spectrum is the challenge of living in a democracy (or what masquerades as one these days).