Let's do it, but only if this online friendship doesn't lead to a chance meetcute where my friend dies and the will is contested, and you happen to be the best damn testicle lawyer this side of the Mississippi River.
I've already given up on love and nothing will thaw this icy heart. Not even the best damn testicle lawyer this side of the Mississippi River.
This is ridiculous, in part because you post a lot of interesting content across multiple communities. Yeah, some of it criticizes AI but it's well founded.
I don't like the Fuck AI or the Pro AI communities here because of how polarized they've become. Actions like this make it so much harder to have any kind of discussion.
I think the technology is cool but capitalism sucks. Any time I bring up an interesting application for AI it devolves into personal attacks. Same thing if talk about stolen training data and the psychological impact of AI reliance.
edit: Well fuck me I guess for not believing a technology is intrinsically evil.
These shows are written by adults, surely adults can enjoy them. Not everything needs to be the Illiad to have a complex plot, intriguing character development and a poignant message.
I have a signed document pledging the right testicle of a highschool friend that I technically own and will collect upon his death. I don't know how many testicles I have.
I didn't make that up for a hypothetical. This is how I live.
I would have never gotten into it if someone didn't give me their old one, since I suck at knitting/crochet. I do use "Wool" in the more universal sense, pretty much any spinnable fibre I can get my hands on. On the bus. On the train. Watching netflix. In the passenger seat. Always spinning. No idea what I'll do with it all, but power to those of us who spin.
Astrology isn't evidence based and readings are performed by people with no real credentials.
Tons of mental health resources come in short worksheets or bulletpoint format. No one is claiming a single resource delivered in point form is going to change your life, but since a lot of therapy is about reframing thoughts, this isn't without value.
I explained why your camparison wasn't adequate for the situation. Child porn isn't as necessary as a shirt, and the abuse is the product, rather than the result of it. There's plenty of ways we all unknowingly contribute to suffering, I'm not going to grade them all on a curve to justify the others.
I don't follow your logic equating child porn to violence in games and movies. Even in situations where violence is gratitous and in poor taste, it's still fake. No real person is actually getting hurt.
I stand by what I said, enjoying pictures that can only be made by hurting someone is wrong, if you believe hurting people is wrong. This is directed at OP's mentioning their kid had real images of children in abusive situations.
Having a disorder doesn't make someone's actions less bad, but I didn't say having a disorder is wrong in itself. Nor did I imply pedophilia can be abstained out of existence, either, rather that it doesn't need to be acted on. I like BDSM but I don't need it so much I would compromise my ideals to get it.
My statement about neuroplasticity was based on the science around porn addiction, and I'm not too happy with your oversimplification, suggesting I think "virtual child porn is a gateway drug to child rape." There've been some ups and downs on that front, but there's a fair amount of research from the last fifty years about it. Weird, sex-needing animals that we are, behaviours associated with a dopamine release can become addictive. So yes, I would err on the side of caution because addiction is a real, chemical dependency.
To go back to the violence in games comparison, research hasn't found a link between enjoying violent media and being violent. Best guess is because the violence itself isn't causing the dopamine release, like porn does. In movies and games the violence is usually part of a narrative instead of being the focus.
I don't have any problem with research on whether or not people with paraphelias can manage urges using generated images, but only if there was a precedent to support that. So far the information we have points in the other direction.
Many people do avoid knowingly buying products made with slave labor. Buying products from a company does encourage them to continue their practices.
A better comparison would be if you had to go out of your way to find a secret back alley shirt maker, and on that shirt were a picture of chuldren getting abused while making it, on it written "little girls were hurt in the making of this shirt."
Pedophilia is a symptom of a disorder that needs treatment, but if your morals include "Children should not be sexually abused," enjoying pictures of it would be wrong under that moral framework. Some people compulsively lie and steal and as well, it doesn't make those actions any less wrong. A reason isn't an excuse.
And looking at fake images, while they don't encourage abuse to create, still play into neuroplasticity. Looking at them isn't helping anyone become any less of a pedophile and may lead to seeking out more extreme and realistic images in the future.
But I do agree this is a place someone should come back from. It's a disorder, not a curse.
This article seems a bit occlusive, even though it's presenting facts in favor of a more detailed understanding of our forests.
For some additional information, logging companies need to replant clearcuts. Within a certain range of other trees, the forest will regenerate naturally if only small, selective cuts are taken. Those are minor wounds, clearcuts need skin grafts. Replanted trees are higher value species, sometimes only two kinds. Historically, no/few regulations on maintaining biodiversity has led to disease and explosions in insect populations who live off those species. You get big chunks of dead forest now more susceptible to fire and a lot of forest isn't that old. More like tree-farming than a naturally biodiverse, heathy landscape. Because it's all going to be harvested again in 40-80 years anyway.
Those forests need more maintenance, too, just like crops. They're sprayed down with chemicals that kill off competing plant species, inspected for disease and destructive insects, and generally just fucked with on the regular so they'll be worth more when harvested.
That means a replanted forest that's just waiting to be logged or taken down by spruce/pine beetles and disease is a lot different from old growth.
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