Re:Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress ...
by suifbwish on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:02PM
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Are you implying that we have no free will and that we lack the agency required for responsibility of our action? Dangerous doctrine there if so; it would imply that all criminals no matter how heinous the crime are victims of the system and thus cannot be punished without said punishment being just an emotional expression of vengeance. It would also mean that you could never take credit for anything you have done because it is just a reaction to your environment. These are only a few implications of a lack of free will/agency
Re:Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress ...
by jodrellblank on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:06AM
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I'm implying that people who dismiss the effects of the environment (advertising) on them by saying they Ayn Randian free-will themselves above it all, are either deluded or malicious. And that instead of systems which are openly hostile to humans which everyone must constantly burn free-will to defend against, we're a lot better acknowledging the predatory nature of advertising, and the limits and fallibility and weakpoints of free will, and en-masse building pro-people systems instead of pro-profit systems.
To then whine that fighting back is 'facist' or to suggest that you're so smart you are magically not influenced by any of this is an embarassment. Companies are permitted to operate in society by the collective will of the people, not by divine right. And the people collectively see that a company is taking the piss, they can change the arrangement to improve it. Saying "company, your behaviour is hurting people's collective health, you need to pay some more taxes to cover it" is one way of doing that. If the company then passes the tax increase to you in the form of higer prices, instead of lower profits, that's up to them.
The very framing of it as "sin tax" as if it's a personal failing and not a deliberate corporate abuse of our biological desires and limits, is a kind of victim blaming that anyone "immune to advertising" oughtn't be falling for.