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  • You think a person’s worth is tied to their genes. Pretty yuck. I disagreed and explained how.

    For the record I was calling YOU out for linking a person to their genes, just not directly, trying to be courteous to the conversation.

    Keep replying now, and you’re just slapfighting. Not worth it. I said in the last comment our positions are well known and the conversation is functionally concluded.




  • GBU_28@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldDid UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
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    I mean if it’s a damaged or failed it’s a bad gene. It caused ms!

    It’s not shitting on a person, it’s discussing a condition.

    I can understand that discussion can lead to eugenics style thoughts.

    “Oh that person has tons of bad genes, they therefore are bad”. That’s wrong though, a person can have a super fucked up body but it doesn’t change their value or goodness.

    When discussing a condition, the genes that improve or cause that condition can be described as good or bad.

    Context matters.



  • GBU_28@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHypothetical generosity is easy
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    Yes but those in the coops have their own possessions. Certainly if you try to take away something as basic as the food they intend to eat themselves they are going to have limits.

    A co op for managing the profits and work of a business makes great sense. But even hard core communists want their own pants and shoes and would be reluctant to give away thier own needs.

    Obviously a deal communes drive towards is provide based on your ability, be provided to based on your needs.

    I think the meme pushes on the perception of the individual of their “needs” (real or hypothetical)

    Edit the point is the meme is all about personal possessions, to use the keywords of the replies.





  • He’s a pedigreed professional at the top of his field at the end of his career. Literally a world class statesmen regardless of if you favor his positions. Why wouldn’t such a person be worth 5-10 mil? He earned his position which can be with a strong salary… For decades. Even tame investments in the whole market would steer him handily towards that worth

    That doesn’t even touch on the mountain of social good and enrichment and support of the poor that he has directly contributed to over his career