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December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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so true! just thinking about it is almost enough to send me back into the Auction Theory wikipedia rabbit hole lol
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
so true! just thinking about it is almost enough to send me back into the Auction Theory wikipedia rabbit hole lol
my big beef with it is when it answers questions of "why do people do what they do?" with "well, people are just like that" or "that's how it's been since time immemorial" because usually there are lots of interdependent factors involved and I wanna consider them, they're interesting and important!
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
my big beef with it is when it answers questions of "why do people do what they do?" with "well, people are just like that" or "that's how it's been since time immemorial" because usually there are lots of interdependent factors involved and I wanna consider them, they're interesting and important!
mostly because it's a metric that's so supple you can do whatever you want with it if you have the right rhetoric
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
mostly because it's a metric that's so supple you can do whatever you want with it if you have the right rhetoric
yes exactly! so this is where we agree I think; when someone says "revenge is human nature and so retributive justice is a natural policy" to me that's missing the point. naturalness isn't a good metric to judge policy by
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
yes exactly! so this is where we agree I think; when someone says "revenge is human nature and so retributive justice is a natural policy" to me that's missing the point. naturalness isn't a good metric to judge policy by
i see what you mean! and i agree that desiring vengeance for being sleighted is potentially very motivating, but I think that both the meaning of a sleight (ie what counts as a sleight, which ones are more severe than others etc) and one's emotional response to it are learned and not innate
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
i see what you mean! and i agree that desiring vengeance for being sleighted is potentially very motivating, but I think that both the meaning of a sleight (ie what counts as a sleight, which ones are more severe than others etc) and one's emotional response to it are learned and not innate
it is really important to acknowledge the material basis for punishment as a strategy though so i'm glad that's a part of this conversation
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
it is really important to acknowledge the material basis for punishment as a strategy though so i'm glad that's a part of this conversation
while i agree that there is a strong material basis for the prevalence of retributive justice along the lines of "economical and efficaciously demonstrative", I would resist the idea that the base emotional desires in question are connected to retributive violence by human nature
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
while i agree that there is a strong material basis for the prevalence of retributive justice along the lines of "economical and efficaciously demonstrative", I would resist the idea that the base emotional desires in question are connected to retributive violence by human nature
i didn't mean to espouse that restorative justice is human nature either; i'm pretty sceptical of the natural/universal quality of any ethical framework. not trying to put words in your mouth but to be clear i find "revenge is lindy" equally non-compelling if anyone were trying to sell me on that
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
i didn't mean to espouse that restorative justice is human nature either; i'm pretty sceptical of the natural/universal quality of any ethical framework. not trying to put words in your mouth but to be clear i find "revenge is lindy" equally non-compelling if anyone were trying to sell me on that
i think the thing that bothers me about framing it as brutal nature vs pleasant artifice is that it's great for folks who want to go the other way, ie, "it's proper for a human to seek revenge, and repressing that urge is unnatural". But besides its rhetorical value, i also don't think it's true
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
i think the thing that bothers me about framing it as brutal nature vs pleasant artifice is that it's great for folks who want to go the other way, ie, "it's proper for a human to seek revenge, and repressing that urge is unnatural". But besides its rhetorical value, i also don't think it's true
i don't think that "members of leftist communities are still interested in other forms of retributive justice" is sufficient evidence to say that retributive justice is a universal human instinct. I think it supports the idea that those sorts of enculturated reactions are really tenacious though!
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
i don't think that "members of leftist communities are still interested in other forms of retributive justice" is sufficient evidence to say that retributive justice is a universal human instinct. I think it supports the idea that those sorts of enculturated reactions are really tenacious though!
i don't think that the death penalty is a uniquely american perversion, but i think that capital punishment's long history (or that of any sort of retributive justice!) is connected more to ethical traditions than to any biological reality
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
i don't think that the death penalty is a uniquely american perversion, but i think that capital punishment's long history (or that of any sort of retributive justice!) is connected more to ethical traditions than to any biological reality
what really makes my teeth itch is when folks will claim that this sense of justice that includes violence directed at bad people is not a cultural value but rather a universal part of human nature
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
what really makes my teeth itch is when folks will claim that this sense of justice that includes violence directed at bad people is not a cultural value but rather a universal part of human nature
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November 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
i always cry when my wife doesn't let me eat her nose cum
it's like they don't even want me to buy this set
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
it's like they don't even want me to buy this set
oh yeah! i definitely mean to read some more from the collection eventually but the copy of carmilla i had was just that novella on its own with some interesting annotations/illustrations
October 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
oh yeah! i definitely mean to read some more from the collection eventually but the copy of carmilla i had was just that novella on its own with some interesting annotations/illustrations
ooo this sounds really good my little book club w my wife and friends just read carmilla and now we're doing titus groan. i bet they'd be interested to have this in the running for later!
October 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ooo this sounds really good my little book club w my wife and friends just read carmilla and now we're doing titus groan. i bet they'd be interested to have this in the running for later!
oh no! what are u trying to read?
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
oh no! what are u trying to read?
pointing at the moon is good, actually!
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
pointing at the moon is good, actually!
it's so weird that the comics confirm that the black suit is jerking peter off the whole time
i'm not complaining it's just weird that they decided to make that explicitly canon
i'm not complaining it's just weird that they decided to make that explicitly canon
July 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
it's so weird that the comics confirm that the black suit is jerking peter off the whole time
i'm not complaining it's just weird that they decided to make that explicitly canon
i'm not complaining it's just weird that they decided to make that explicitly canon