#WHAT IS WRONG WITH PHILOSOPHERS...
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My utilitarian take is that ethicists should all be beaten to death with a stick
#WHAT IS WRONG WITH PHILOSOPHERS...#they will say the most out of pocket shit to strawman and undermine the simplest ideas...#why does the criticisms section of the wiki page for utilitarianism have racial slurs in it#can ethicists be normal for one second#also funny that most of the arguments against utilitarianism. you know. the ethics system centered on practicality.#are just people bringing up completely improbable/impractical scenarios as a gatcha
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BSD Official Guidebook Tenkaroku - characters profiles
Profiles from the season 3 guidebook. I heavily relied on automatic translators for this, so if you notice any mistake, please feel free to bring it to my attention. I'll be posting the Japanese original text in reblogs not to make this post too long. Other guidebooks profiles: Shinkaroku; DEAD APPLE; Gongeroku.
Fifteen arc
Osamu Dazai Age: 15 years old Height: 155cm Weight: 51kg Impression when he met Chuuya for the first time: “I'll never feel positively about him again” Places he would like to visit if he went travelling: Famous suicide (by drowning) spots What are the qualities of a “king”?: The ones of people like Mori-san
Chuuya Nakahara Age: 15 years old Height: 150cm Weight: 53kg Impression when he met Dazai for the first time: “There's trash all around” Places he would like to visit if he went travelling: I want to go to a trip overseas with my friends What are the qualities of a “king”?: Being strong
Arthur Rimbaud Age: 27 years old Height: 185cm Weight: 68kg What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: having a useful ability / Weaknesses: being sensitive to cold Favourite type: A woman who can warm him up Motto: Always put the mission above everything else Something he wants right now: His lost memories of the past
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Osamu Dazai Something they've been into recently: Showing everyone the footage of Kunikida going insane because of Q's ability Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Since Ranpo-san is here, there can't be a “can't lose to anyone” What they want to overcome: Nothing at all
Atsushi Nakajima Something they've been into recently: Checking the bankbook page with his salary Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: He doesn't have any confidence in himself, so there's no such thing. What they want to overcome: I want to learn to have the common sense of and behave like a member of society.
Kyouka Izumi Something they've been into recently: Research on cooking for Atsushi Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Gratitude towards Atsushi and the Detective Agency What they want to overcome: I want to become less startled by thunders.
Doppo Kunikida Something they've been into recently: Education for the increased number of new employees Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Ability to plan, and passion to carry it out perfectly What they want to overcome: My own imperfections that sometimes prevent me from carrying out my plans
Junichirou Tanizaki Something they've been into recently: Visiting western pastries shops with Naomi Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I'm embarrassed to say it, but supporting and protecting a certain woman. What they want to overcome: My indecisiveness
Kenji Miyazawa Something they've been into recently: Teaching farming to the members of destroyed gangs Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Love for nature What they want to overcome: I want to be able to use a computer
Ranpo Edogawa Something they've been into recently: Initiating Kyouka to the deliciousness of cheap candies Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I can't lose to anyone in anything What they want to overcome: I am perfect like I am now
Yukichi Fukuzawa Something they've been into recently: Showing up at a Go club Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Excellence of subordinates What they want to overcome: The mistakes of the assassin from the past
Akiko Yosano Something they've been into recently: Collecting photos of dissected patients' internal organs Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Human body dismemberment skills What they want to overcome: If possible, I want to save patients who have no choice but to die.
Chuuya Nakahara Something they've been into recently: Enriching his wine cellar assortment at home Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Hatred towards Dazai What they want to overcome: When buying a big motorcycle, I want to stop checking whether my feet can touch the ground
Ryuunosuke Akutagawa Something they've been into recently: Searching for Dazai's house Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: I would rather have something that no one can beat. What they want to overcome: My nemesis, the man-tiger.
Ougai Mori Something they've been into recently: Coming up with new strategies to recruit Dazai Something at which they think they can't lose to anyone: Organization management techniques that request rationality and logic What they want to overcome: Buying too many clothes for Elise
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Age: Unknown Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: wishing for world happiness / Weakness: low blood pressure Favourite type: He loves all human beings equally Motto: Happiness in this world Something he wants right now: Someone to talk with who has the same brain as him
Katai Tayama Age: 23 years old Height: 175cm Weight: 53kg What he believes are his strengths and weaknesses: Strength: his life is not expensive (no expenses for transportation and socialization) / Weakness: if left to himself, he won't change his clothes Favourite type: A refined, dignified and gentle woman Motto: There are many dangers outside the house Something he wants right now: Faster communication networks
#bsd ada#bsd pm#Maybe will tag all the characters later idk for now I don't want to spam the tags#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd dazai chūya age fifteen#bsd s3#bsd translation#mine#I'm struggling the most with Akutagawa's second answer‚ he's too philosophical 🤦🤦#The original would be 「誰にも負けないと思っていること: むしろ誰にも負けぬものが欲しい」 .#He's repeating the 「誰にも負け」 of the question‚ but wouldn't that be:#“What's something you can't lose to anyone: I'd prefer having something that doesn't make me lose to anyone”#which doesn't make much sense??#Another I struggled with is 「そこらのゴミと一緒」#With this one it's... Actually I just don't get it. That one may be completely wrong#The rest should be fine (hopefully)
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you're all arguing 'joel was right' 'joel was wrong' but somewhere out there chidi anagonye has just finished the last of us finale and is having a mental breakdown over the trolley problem
#what i love about the arguments is ppl are missing the point ajksjakjs#its not a right or wrong decision it's literally the trolley problem bro it's one of humanity's biggest philosophical debates#the last of us#the good place#plum.txt
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Anyone else ever think about how the last hero’s legend is a story about a group of 13 companions who went out into the winter cold as an act of self sacrifice to save those they left behind? And how that is knowingly or unknowingly replicated in the northern tradition where old men venture out to die in the harsh winters so that those left behind have a higher chance of survival? It’s just me? Ok.
#it’s like winter is coming and the starks being the kings of winter - it’s a legacy of the long night that the northmen long forgot#funny how their mantra is the north remembers sksnsjsns yeah they remember the wrong shit I cannot rn#anyway its a less interesting exercise to identify which character is going to fit into which legend#it’s more rewarding to look at how the cultural practices that exist within all these regions: essos the north etc#might inform on how these characters philosophize whatever roles they have and what actions they ought to take#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls
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aang having a code against killing makes sense because as the last airbender he carries the weight of his entire peoples and culture on his wee shoulders, and that includes respecting and valuing all life. it is core to his being, and him finding a roundabout way to solve the issue of killing ozai makes sense both as an airbender and for the story. we find out later in the kyoshi series that murder literally inhibits your ability to airbend, hence kyoshi and her mother's use of fans! and dont bring your utilitarian "oh we can save more lives by killing one person" into this, because sure that can work for another show but not this one!! it is literally the core thesis of the show! have some media literacy my god
#aang#avatar aang#ill put respect to their name!#atla#avatar the last airbender#we can debate the morality of killing all you want we'll talk ourselves in circles and not add anything new to the conversation#people and silly little philosophers have been debating this stuff for centuries#“x was in the right y is in the wrong”#shut up! whether killing is justified in certain cases or not depends on the show and the message its trying to give#and what will be more thematically satisfying#and dont u dare bring the “batman should kill the joker” debate into this#or do idc ill fight you#batman cant kill the joker but the red hood and his other victims can that is my stance#and ive seen like no debates in the morality of killing in black sails discourse because everyone is on the same boat
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How some people feel after shitting on people’s interests just because they’re popular or “basic”, and assuming they’re better than them for having niche interests (you’re the problem):
For anyone who needs to hear it, just because someone’s extroverted or enjoys popular things doesn’t mean they’re stupid or that they even can’t have niche interests too. Crazy insane mental concept, people aren’t one dimensional. Touch grass. Or kys. Whatever works best really
#listen I hate booktok but yes certain trends on there sparked this post#‘You should read silly romance!’ (what I read) and then it’s like Dostoevsky or something#like ok I hate Colleen Hoover and dark ‘romance’ shit too but girl bsfr#just because you like philosophical cerebral media doesn’t mean you can’t have some silliness and whimsy#if you think I’m not reading fucking War and Peace and then immediately binging objectively shitty romcom sitcoms#you’re WRONG#to quote Chappell Roan YOURE NOT FUN!#anyway#media#books#films#music#pop music#pop culture
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imagine you just got saved by your hot wife after almost a decade of being stuck in a military operation, being brainwashed and losing a fucking limb and you finally get to come back home to your family and see your children that you thought you were never going to see again and everything is perfect and you're settling in but then a dingy ass plane lands in your backyard and out of it comes a weird child who has been sent by your boy best friend who is now apparently on a european vacation and of course you're gonna take care of the kid because bro has basically raised your children while you were gone but like. the kid is fucking Catholic. and also French. poor fucking rick
#laurent will ask him some weird ass philosophical question and rick will Wish he was back at the crm#this is what him and michonne get for making daryl a single mother#karma#except judith has never done anything wrong in her life ever and rj is a little cutie#but they get to look after messiah junior. good fucking luck lmao#twd#rick grimes#daryl dixon#tboc
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regardless of what i say toward michiru (or kazumi to a lesser extent), i don't think anything will ever compare to how severe my feelings for lurien were and still are (i've just gotten shy since i rarely post abt hk anymore, i don't want it to solely be 'this bug needs to be real so i can spend the rest of my days tending to him' . . .)
#I FEAR TO SAY IT. BUT AGAIN: THE THINGS I WOULD DO FOR THAT OLD MAN!!!#jestersvaguely#i also get too shy speaking at length abt my thoughts regarding michiru as well. because that's a lot more genuine#'i think we'd have a real connection' - and there isn't even the barrier of 'let's discuss Iurien and aster'#where indulging them is still nice because i get to see glimpses of Iurien's happiness even when not directed toward me as im accustomed to#but i want michiru to look At Me. and after a night of humoring her with the philosophical and morbid i want to have her blood on my tongue#and have her feel my heartbeat and hear it when it's like this and feel the same exhilaration of someone who truly Understands desire#not only in a romantic sense but in the grand scheme of what is worthwhile to pursue or even fantasize. even as individuals#but i digress. ok. ok. ok. nothing wrong with me 🚬
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i do actually headcanon that angoulême had some friends spread throughout beauclair & throughout the sansretour valley. but they weren’t good friends. just… “i know a guy” type of deals. very golan drosdeck type of random association like. you’re nineteen. how do you know all of these people. idk. it’s a small criminal underworld after all. but like drosdeck she would have debts with all of them and none of them would be willing to help her and some still are looking to scam her. and despite her… ‘worldliness’, she is still quite naïve
#and i mean this to parallel & contrast with regis who is just now meeting some people… well… ‘people’ … beings…#(as opposed to having a history with them)#but all the new connections are souring in real time#just because of philosophical and ideological clashes and intellectual arrogance#(as opposed to having debts and having wronged people)#i mean naïve as in vulnerable as well like essentially when schirrú grabs her and puts a knife to her throat#or how she and her bros walked into artevelde’s ambush#like you’re smart but you get outsmarted way too much but it’s only because you’re not even 20 yet#the elbow-high diaries#in short to live a dream#oh and all of them sre very confused if regis shows up with her. extremely non sequitur acquaintance#but i think only one sees him before he feels its too awkward#‘next time i shall accompany you inside sotto voce’#she crinkles her nose. ‘what does that mean’ . ‘i’ll be around’ . disappears. OK. what is she supposed to make of that. lol
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ok let's catch up quickly
#so i went on a few dates w this guy. long hair beautiful face kinda looked like a girl (good) said yes ma'am when i told him to do smth#(also good) film student great at photography including candids. made a sheath of leather for a sword pin i have . et cetera.#he asked to cuddle and i was like iggg and then i felt Nothing and i was like ohhh yh ok ok yep lesbian#like he meets almost all my criteria but. yeahhh no . also at the end of that date he had some weird takes. anyway broke up w him and told#him actually im p sure im a lesbian (again) and he was like yk thats the second time this has happened to me this week but its ok bc ive#fallen for this girl from berlin. and then we cooked together. anyway . met a beautiful butch lowk in love w her. weve been on (1) date.#have two exams in a few days havent studied enough going to like end it all basically. my research partner kicked me off our research#(expected(it was always skinda sketchy)) which was devastating + it happened in a lidl 15 hours into a journey from bordeaux#to go back to the UK. my friends were kinda busy paying for baguettes but also they heard this whole exchange and are kinda mad at him#my friend of 10+ years is coming over in a few days. my evil ex situationship person that i decided to stay friends w because i kept#insisting they are a good friend and not evil and also extremely beautiful? turns out shockingly enough they were evil. tried to fix them#and then i realised due to their entire friendship group being ppl like me (Every Single One of their friends are ppl they met on dating#apps then led on then dumped and proposed staying friends w) and are collectively extremely attracted to them and not over them they#keep validating the most diabolical shit they say/do to hace a chance w them. they broke up w their ex and the way they keep leading#this poor girl on and making her heartbeeak worse and saying that they want more power over her and want her to beg for them back etc...MY#JAW HAD DROPPED esp bc i didnt even know the ex was in the picture BECAUSE ME AND ONE OF OUR FRIENDS (that they also dated) HAD JUSR SLEPT#NAKED TOGETHER IN THEIR BED W THEM. GIRL. anyway that is the least of the diabolical stuff they said but no we are moving onnn#this was b4 the beautiful butch btw. anyways . i have a mitski concert tmrw i think?? idek anymore#i used to have a crush on this guy very briefly and then it disappeared and then i realised if he fundementally changed everything abt#himself then maybe id like him but ofc i didnt tell him that but i still think abt it sometimes but anyway thats irrelevant now bc 99% sure#even if he did id still not find him attractive (lesbianism). please recommend good overnight moisturisers btw i have super dry skin#right. the friend of 10 yrs. we had a hard convo abt why she essentially bullied me in year 8 and it made me highly bitter but i also love#her and ik things are diff now its been like . Many Years . and shes going to stay a while I HAVE TWO EXAMS I DONT HAVE TIME but i love her#its fine. i think i might just switch into medicine and do the whole become a neurosurgeon thing (which was my plan B) bc plan A is looking#kinda impossible rn. I WANNA TALK MORE ABT WHAT THE EX SITUATIONSHIP PERSON SAID but i wont bc i dont wanna be too mean but also . MY GOD#i had a conversation w a philosopher friend about whether i have a moral responsibility to try to fix them bc unleashing this on society#feels wrong and he said 'probably but...run' so yeah im not talking to them atm. second date w beautiful butch on monday btw IDK WHAT TO#WEAR. she said she likes fems. im just gonna wear the shortest ralph lauren skirt i have w the cute leg warmers and hope 4 the best#its 1:15 AM im abt to drink coffee and start studying bc what the FUCK man. also almost finished watching the boys its very good#one of my best friends is struggling rn it is breaking my heart i want to take the burden from her i miss her very much
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i feel like i’ve written some version of divorce era kyle describing how frightening looking at a stan he thinks HATES him is like A Million Times, but i feel like i can never articulate the quiet mounting Horror quite right, but this is the one i like the best thus far, i think? xx
#nina writes sometimes#listen its leading somewhere funny and interesting and zesty i promise but i wanted to do prose girl stuff for a second#i love bein in my talking about my obscure fanfic writing weird snippets of things just for me and yelling into the void era#this is hot girl shit#but yeah there is something so shiny and irresistible to me about writing about character transformation thru other eyes#specifically watching a brutal character become gentle or a gentle character become brutal#usually due to the eventual presence or sudden absence...#of love or affection#yes i am in a philosophical mood idk what is wrong with me but idk its interesting to me i like intense emotions a lot#weaponization and deweaponization#belonging to someone and them not belonging to u back#i didn't know how to word it but in essence#in his heart that is Still His Stan#but he is Nobody's Kyle#i want to start screaming anyways yeah i always fuck it up it never sounds right but i think i finally like it idk#please enjoy or don't my writing exercise#also lastly i love how horrifiying this is and awful scary sad detached ravenstan is to jersey but that he cant be upset#because he MADE that happen and its HIS fault#so he just has to live knowing he killed the person he loved#by not being able to articulate that love to them and fail them#because you were too afraid to be weak or vulnerable#and by proxy you feel your weakest and most vulnerable#OKAY I AM DONE YAY ANYWAYS!
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I might be too stupid or too western to understand Houseki no Kuni. Can you guys at least tell me if the manga is good? If you guys liked it?
I'm unsure about it, I have criticisms and I feel like I like the version of it in my head better.
But I'm afraid to say anything on that because I think it's just my idiot perception.
#I don't want to piss on the poor you know?#houseki no kuni#hnk#lotl#land of the lustrous#phosphophyllite#this is a very philosophical manga so maybe I'm just wrong#maybe I just don't have what it takes
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gacha game: releases two characters
reddit: oh my god they’re so funny!!!
twitter: oh my god they’re so gay!!!
me: oh my god they’re so sara ahmed nancy fraser hierarchical value dualisms critical literature emotion/logic dichotomy!!! (and also funny and gay)
#there is something wrong with me (i am a political theory major and insufferable ex-debate captain/LD debater)#kaveh and alhaitham 🤝 me … being insufferably pretentious ab everything and turning everything into philosophical debates#a post for one person (me) i assume. but still#kaveh#alhaitham#genshin impact#haikaveh#kavetham#idk what their ship name is#100#how did this get literally any notes LOL
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i might have just started to solve my Ethical Crisis II. because like... it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter if i know what's ethically correct right now. I'm not influencing anyone else to do whatever, i just want to fucking experience this. I'm gonna do all of [thing] regardless of if i extensively think about the ethics of it, worsening my mental health in the process. so why just... NOT try to figure out the right answer?
i don't need to have all the answers right now. i just need to live.
#pov you accidentally watch the wrong video when trying to prepare for school project xD#I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING I WAS ONLY WATCHING THAT JEFF BEZOS VID BECAUSE SCHOOL PROJECT I CHOSE ON A WHIM#and now I'm here experiencing a fucking philosophical awakening at 21:00 while my poster is due tomorrow#(i barely started on it)#idk is this an adhd thing?#also i remembered i don't even know if happyness is the goal#because why not have different goals that don't correlate with happiness whatsoever?#what if i theoretically wanted to be unhappy???#(ok get me away from mental illness before i start preaching philosophy pls)#(also dw I'm prettyyy sure that that's only in pure theory)#(i want to be happy. i think.)#GOD YEAH I'VE ALREADY REACHED A GOOD CONCLUSION I DON'T NEED TO DO MORE PHILOSOPHISING THIS IS A TAD TOO MUCH#silly's musings
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I wish I was not an unintelligent manchild.
#Vent#I wish I had interests that were properly 'adult'#I wish I didn't like being surrounded by toys and trinkets and games and comics.#I wish my room looked like how you'd expect an adult's room to look#I wish my art was refined. I wish I worked in mediums that were considered respectable to the average person.#I wish I could read. I mean like I really wish I could focus and read a book above a high school reading level. And properly disect it.#I wish I dressed properly. Plainly.#I wish I could feel comfortable surrounded by muted colors.#I wish I didn't enjoy obnoxious music.#I wish I didn't cling to things that reminded me of my childhood.#I wish I could be just like a normal adult office worker who was able to socialize properly and went to the gym#And then would go home and cook myself dinner and read and then go to sleep.#And I would still be miserable. I'd still be undesirable. But at least I'd be normal. I'd probably hate myself less. I'd be more respectabl#Why didn't I ever grow up. Why. What's wrong with me.#Why did I get a weird job. Why do I want weird things. Why am I weird.#Maybe if I was normal I could make fun of adults who have weird interests and get rid of the awful fucking pit in my stomach#Maybe I'd be marginally less miserable because at least my life is put together and at least I'm normal.#And I wouldn't have to waste time and money and energy doing weird things like going to conventions#(I was going to add to that but I rarely leave the house as is)#Instead I would just talk at the water cooler and otherwise think insightfully and deeply. Be a proper philosopher or something.#And with a better more normal job I'd have the money to be a philanthropist too#And I wouldn't bother anyone#And I DEFINITELY wouldn't be FLAPPING MY FUCKING HANDS WHEN I GET EXCITED#OR SINGING UNDER MY BREATH RANDOMLY WITHOUT REALIZING IT#OR BITING MY NAILS OR TAPPING MY FINGERS OR LISTENING TO MUSIC SO LOUD I CAN FEEL IT IN MY CHEST#I WOULDNT BE BOUNCING MY FUCKING LEG#I WOULD BE *FUCKING NORMAL*.
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It's a travesty that I can't reblog gifsets of books.
#this post is about#the invisible life of addie larue#I am lost in this book#and when I was lost in The Acolyte#there were gifs and photosets and actor interviews#but no such luck for the books I love#well#except for the folk of the air series#there are some real gems in the fota tags#but most of the fanart for this book is so focused on the wrong part?#Which to be fair was also a problem with The Acolyte#like I understand this is the 'inhuman villain x human hero' website#so i don't know what else I expected anybody to take away from this book#certainly not the moral and emotional complexity of the characters or the situations they're put in#or the way it follows through on the implications of its premise#or the philosophical questions it begs you to ask#or the existential pit it draws you to look into#or the sheer bloody-minded downright spiteful amount of hope it provides#it's almost a parable#the girl that smiled into the darkness and the darkness that smiled back#the woman who is so stubbornly determined to live that death itself can't help but love her even as she hates it#the woman who valued her life so much she gave up everything to keep it#and the man who loved her so well that she gave it up all over again to save him#to have complete freedom with no one to share#the heaven and the hell of it#God#this book has ruined me#i can't remember the last time I felt so haunted by a story#I added some of the author's other works to my library app#but tbh
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