• Traister101@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    And yet I know people who think they are friends with the Discord chat bot Clyde. They are adults, older than me.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        1 month ago

        If half of all people aren’t rational, then there’s no use making policy decisions based on what a rational person would think. The law should protect everyone.

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            1 month ago

            There’s a push for medical suicide for people with severe illness. People famously jumped to their deaths from the world trade center rather than burn alive. Rationality is only a point if view. You can rationalize decisions as much as you like but there is no such thing as right or wrong.

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            1 month ago

            Your right, no one has any rationality at all which is why we live in a world where so much stuff actually gets done.

            Why is someone with deep wisdom and insights such as yourself wasting their time here on lemmy?

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              What stuff is “getting done” exactly? Is stuff that people want, but ultimately they have irrational reasons for wanting it.

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        Ah yes, the famous adage, “the only rational people are in my specific age and demographic bracket. Everyone else is fucking insane”