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No, that is not the direct equivalence. The direct equivalence for 2. Would be something like

"But then they insist that being naked is never acceptable and is grotesque, and anyone that disagrees is a gross pervert"

That's where the inconsistency comes from

But "constructing better morals" is by itself a non-relativist statement. How can you say there are "better morals" when you follow moral relativism, which states that there is no universal set of moral principles? In other words, that morals are not comparable with each-other?

It's not the same thing as accepting that different cultures have different set of morals, but whether some things are simply more moral than others, or not. For example, saying that slavery is always bad, and should never be allowed, is an absolutist moral statement.

The cost of living crisis is global. Exploitation of labour is global. Everything for profit's sake is global. Climate action being hampered due to corporate interests is global. Wealth inequality rising is global.

What's the alternative? Continuing as we have so far? Doesn't seem to have worked out so great.

Hello fellow Scandinavian

I share your worries, I truly think we're going to have war at our doorsteps sooner or later, and I don't really know what to do about it (beyond I guess, preparing mostly self-sufficient communities of like-minded individuals capable of self-defense, but yeah..)

It's definitively scary

I really don't understand your issue here. So should people not post their experiences and thoughts on social media?

It's a dedicated community for it, it's in the exact place it's supposed to be in. I don't see the point in restricting yourself because you don't want it to be on the front page or what not

Besides, it's still important to discuss the decline of a major user platform like reddit, especially since most of us here have personal experience with it, and likely have friends that use it

I think you meant "kingdom of Denmark" there, but yeah

I don't know, I think what will just end up happening is china's "dollar" taking its place instead

We're just going to end up exchanging one superpower for another, it's not going to fundamentally fix the problem. For that you'd need to do it more sensibly

Alternatively, why not just.. let people be themselves and weird? Because they were annoying to you? So many people are annoying for one reason or another, do we need to discipline them for it? Moreover, should we? Or would that just be limiting our expression and enforcing uniformity?

It's literally the broken window fallacy

Ngl, stockades and free use.... Yeah

I mean, when you're morning person you also just spend all those daylights hours at work so

Unless you work outside, I wouldn't say there's that much of a difference

..why shouldn't they?

Fix some leaky pipes, the water pressure has been getting low seems like

And also all the people who said "you call everyone Nazis"

How did that turn out, huh?

For 1., also don't forget that major labour movements spring up during and after WW2, it's hard to say how much of a repeat that will be this time around, but the potential is there

And 2., I agree, I am concerned myself, especially with nukes these days

But on the other hand, economy, and reliance on globalized production chains, is so much more central to the core of a nation these days. It's not possible to just produce everything locally anymore, not like it was during WW2, anyway. everything is too hyper specialized for that now

So there is the potential that, if the US really does something very stupid and gets a complete embargo from the rest of the west, they're just going to get completely fucked (and so will the rest of the west, but you know). So the amount of damage they end up being able to do might end up being limited

Of course, China would benefit massively from this, as they do actually go heavy on self-sufficiency, and then there's the risk of Russia exploiting this as well, but the silver lining is that the US simply might collapse before it manages to do some real damage

In the end, I think the future of how the world will look like will be up to China. I really really hope that they end up having a massive democratic movement for the sake of the world, but we'll see. At least China so far still seems like a rational actor on the world stage, although still ruthless and self-serving, of course

If there's any consolation, I personally support asylum for Americans escaping political persecution for my country, I just hope that our government will act quickly enough for it, and the right not getting in the way

I expect a lot of, especially queer, people trying to escape, and I really hope we get something in place before it's too late

I mean, if you're going through tough times you do end up with a lot of personal experience with mental health struggles. That is experience you can then pass onto others

It's an authoritarian take

Tbh at this point, yeah, I'm probably more likely to have a d20 with me than a coin

I still have the hope that people see the trainwreck the US is now and go "oh shit", and try to avoid it