On Friday, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration urged U.S. aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities.”
The president said her administration waited a couple hours until the U.S. government provided “written” assurance that there would not be any U.S. military flights over Mexican territory.
Right - the headline isn’t even about taking any action in Mexico, it covers military action elsewhere that uses the sky above them. I’m not interested in some bet that even requires attacking cartels in Mexico, just a straight-up “fell for it” against the headline.
Here's how I read: your personal ethics/politics are innate rather than learned from your family --> social context plays a minimal role in people's choices
Sorry - that wasn’t clear - there’s plenty of ways I think my upbringing has impacted who I am and that there are ways I’m still fighting to break out of that mould. I don’t know what exactly helped me escape it here. Maybe it had more impact than I recognize and I just don’t realize it. I don’t think my personal ethics/politics were entirely innate, I think I’ve grown from a place that was more heavily influenced from my upbringing but believing (perhaps incorrectly) that the growth has largely come just from seeing the results of my upbringing in action.
I’m struggling to make sense of how someone can find themselves a willing participant in genocide and perhaps hoping that there’s an innate part of me that would be sensible enough to not end up there that might not be real. I struggle with knowing that I can/should be doing more than I do, while also not feeling like I actually have the spoons for it.
Sorry, I still don't think this is really an answer.
Well, the final reply in that screenshot is AI just predicting what words are supposed to come next, so 99% chance it’s wrong and horribly misinterpreting the sources it cited.
I dunno whether I’d prefer the clear signal to avoid the server entirely or the rules I’ve faced in the past where everything is very pro-LGBTQIA from a rules standpoint, but to actually get banned for violating them you need to be so exceedingly homophobic that the rules might as well be the same as in the screenshot.
One of my replies elsewhere feels particularly applicable here:
Far too many aren’t even getting to the point of weighing whether it’s worse to commit genocide or go to jail - just skip straight to
I don’t doubt that “nurture” plays a role in who you become as a person, but there’s nobody in my family I can point to and say they’ve had a truly formative effect on my politics from a stance of agreement. They told me that I should care about the wellbeing of other people, sure, but it’s not like anyone actually demonstrated that in a meaningful way.
he was upset about having lost friends in battle, not about whatever crimes he and his friends had committed
I was thinking about this earlier too, but never posted the reply - I’m curious what percentage of the suicides come from the pain of realizing that it’s wrong to murder babies vs trauma that’s not driven by the actions they took.