WithoutFurtherDelay

this specific image is good and upsets that actually

What?

the fact this is downvoted while a meme that explicitly just dunks on anarchists without any real critique to it is just sad

Anti-capitalism is technically a single issue movement.

I’ve always been supportive of publicly funded dating apps, it would open up a whole series of dating app maintainer jobs and that would be objectively the funniest

We have to be there, proving to these people who are becoming alienated that our alternative works. Otherwise, they’ll fall to despair or fascism. I believe that the principle of mutual aid is one thing that anarchists got objectively right.

Nothing you’ve said here is something I was arguing against. There’s a huge difference between mathematically calculating a good labor economy and basing an entire moral system on arbitrary calculations. Labor hours are concrete, “happiness” isn’t.

Also I agree that landlords suck and that was the point of what I was saying with the example. That a statement as nonsensical as “landlords good actually” can be justified with mathematical utilitarianism because of it’s inherently arbitrary nature

The objective of most ethics isn’t to “do what results in the best world”. What makes up a “best world” is already complicated enough by itself to have generated entirely different schools of thought. And whether that’s a worthwhile goal is just as complex

The refutation of utilitarianism is that happiness cannot be measured. Neither can the value of a human life.

The entirety of “utilitarianism” as it is currently practiced relies on the idea that you can, and, because of the lack of concrete numbers for these things, you can literally argue for anything you want with it.

For instance, someone could say that working one hour as a landlord is more painful than working for ten hours as a tenant, because the landlord is less used to working, so landlord work hour = -20 happiness units and prole work hour = -3 happiness units, and then go on to conclude that a worker working for 5 hours is justifiable if it prevents a landlord from working for 1 hour. The problem with this is that everything I just said was entirely made up (and the premise is blatantly false), and the units themselves are never defined, not even in actual examples from self-described utilitarians, fundamentally meaning that this nonsense, outright reactionary take I just used as an example of the flaw of mathematical utilitarian thinking, is exactly as valid as every other equation anyone has done to calculate utilitarianism. The entire concept of calculating happiness is vague nonsense and can only make sense in our commodified world where we’ve reduced everything down to a value.

Utilitarianism sort of works as a general principle, but even then, none of this is getting in to the numerous different kinds of utilitarianism that also argue for entirety different actions at different times, and even entirely different premises

But a significant majority of that evil and injustice is perpetrated by the bourgoisie, giving weight to the idea that our philosophical outlook has been greatly darkened by capitalism

All of these are, like you said, pretty hard to answer, except for

2 b. Is objective meaning the same as objective truth or objective knowledge?

No. Objective meaning refers to the idea of objectively correct goals to life. “Meaning of life”. This can’t exist unless there is a god or designer that created the universe

Existentialism, as in, the notion that reality has no objective meaning, is objectively correct. There is no god nor higher power to bestow objective meaning on to people.

What we do have is a lot of subjective meanings piled together with lots of people agreeing on them so they become basically objective.

I’ve often wondered if nihilistic/pessimistic life-averse philosophies emerged as a side effect capitalism

I wonder sometimes if the appropriation of Nazi memes makes people implicitly associate us with Nazis.

Regardless, good meme comrade

another sacrifice for deng-bottomist thought, when will the twink dictatorship end?

OMEGADEATH TO ALL LANDLORDS. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

the alien (British) ideas of the foreigners (British) is attacking western society (indigenous peoples) with its filth (colonialism) and false ideas (fascism)

(it’s funny because it sounds like something a Nazi would say but means something a Nazi would despise)

I JUST NOTICED YOU HAVE MR MUSHROOM AS YOUR PFP. MOST BASED LEMMY USER CONFIRMED???

probably best to just assume that any attempt to dismiss ideas from other countries due to being “alien”, without any other reasons, is just reactionary scaremongering

I infringed on our irony-poisoned detachment from reality, forcing us to come face to face with this horrifying world…

comes face to face with this horrifying world

Oh my god I’m so sorry what have I done