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7/19/2025, 5:41:53 PM
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>>40755921
>What's gratuitous about it?
I’m talking about the rhetorical gratuitousness of posters who, excessively attached to their subjective experience, come up with a particularly lurid example of Earthly suffering - child rape, etc etc - and fling it at the thread as if the person they’re arguing with has never heard of “child rape” before and that’s going to win them the argument. (See >>40755921 for a fresh specimen). You fail to understand that what you’re really saying here is: “Wahhh! I’ve fallen for the trick! I am hopelessly ensnared!” That’s understandable; it’s a very convincing trick and that’s why we have the story of Jesus crying in the garden: Material suffering seems awfully serious when you’re a material being. But no example of suffering a human mind is capable of conceptualizing - your raped daughters, child slaves, genocide victims etc - will be free from that inherent bias of subjectivity, or, ultimately, something that “matters” at the marcoscopic scale.
>>40755921
>What's gratuitous about it?
I’m talking about the rhetorical gratuitousness of posters who, excessively attached to their subjective experience, come up with a particularly lurid example of Earthly suffering - child rape, etc etc - and fling it at the thread as if the person they’re arguing with has never heard of “child rape” before and that’s going to win them the argument. (See >>40755921 for a fresh specimen). You fail to understand that what you’re really saying here is: “Wahhh! I’ve fallen for the trick! I am hopelessly ensnared!” That’s understandable; it’s a very convincing trick and that’s why we have the story of Jesus crying in the garden: Material suffering seems awfully serious when you’re a material being. But no example of suffering a human mind is capable of conceptualizing - your raped daughters, child slaves, genocide victims etc - will be free from that inherent bias of subjectivity, or, ultimately, something that “matters” at the marcoscopic scale.
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