u/UltronsEx

Are you anti-conservationism? Why it is or isn't beneficial in respect to sentient beings?

Let's pretend for a moment you aren't an anthropocentric philosophical pessimist and apply it to all sentient life:

The bleaching of our coral reefs means much less net biological organisms over the lifetime of our planet.

In opposite, conservationism increases net organisms by ensuring spaces exist for it to flourish.

How do you balance the deontological, suffering-inducing wrong of pollution and habbitat destruction with the fact that ensuring the conservation of these spaces causes many more times suffering via hundreds of billions of new bloodlines?

Are we protecting them just because it feels good to reduce short-term suffering—or do you believe that there is enough epistemic uncertainty to say that the loss of coral reefs and forests cannot be assumed to reduce long-term suffering?

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u/UltronsEx — 1 day ago

So I am about about 100 pages into The Last Herald mage and I cannot stand it. I don't think I can ever do young adult outside of The Hunger Games.

Do you have any book recommendations where the romance/attraction isn't immediately shoved in your face?

I see y'all have an LGBT repository, but I don't want to have to check the target audience for each one.

Edit: A lot of Last Herald Mage lovers I see. Sorry 🙈

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u/UltronsEx — 18 days ago

I am at minimum a social democrat. I don't agree with communism—but I don't land anywhere to the right of social democracy.

I read the ABCs of socialism, as the democratic socialism subreddit has it first on their introductory texts. I found it to be an unorganized rant against common attacks on socialism and was a complete waste of my time. I have a few questions, as seen in the post title:

What is market socialism vs socialism?

Is the end goal of socialism, communism for the majority of socialists? Not that I'm at all educated, but this seems like a very marxist space which confuses me as to why anyone whose end goal is communism would be identifying as a socialist.

So as I said, ABCs of socialism was a useless book and I'd like some recommendations so I can actually understand what socialism looks like in practice.

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u/UltronsEx — 22 days ago