Socrates didn’t have access to modern science. This shit rots your brain.

Because most people who search for that are looking for the nazi stuff, not advertising fluff for a Slavic-inspired video game

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It’s literally the first result when searching the phrase “Slavic emoji” on google. Hanlon’s razor applies. Most normal people are not aware of any nazi symbols other than the swastika

Given it was an advertisement for a game inspired by Slavic mythology, “Slavic emoji” means “advertisement for a game inspired by Slavic mythology” in this case. Do you think the developers of The End Of The Sun are nazis?

Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!

this sequence can only be found on a site by or about Nazis.

I mean, that exact sequence is in the header of the first result for an ostensibly innocent google search. Spend some time where normal people hang out, and you’ll find that a lot of them can’t clock Nazi dogwhistles. I’ve personally had to explain the significance of “14/88” to people who thought I was nuts for calling the My Pillow guy a nazi

This is what you get when you google “Slavic emoji” BTW

Oh hey look all of those emoji from the email are on there

Is there literally even one other time in the entire history of their company that they’ve shown anything that suggests sympathy towards white supremacy? Hanlan’s razor applies until there’s at least one other use of a questionable emoji

Literally impossible for it to age like milk. They can’t remove games from your library, the way every other storefront can

It’s not a nitpick, but also that newsletter is not indicative of GOG being a Nazi organization. The idea that they specifically decided to advertise a new game based on Slavic mythology specifically so that they could send a mass advertisement to half their user base intentionally using Nazi symbolism is wild. It is much more likely that some marketing dimwit Googled “Slavic runes,” and copied some random ones from the first site they found.

Screenshot of the first result for “slavic emoji” on google

It’s one data point, not a pattern. Definitely something to watch out for, but there’s literally nothing else in the history of the company to suggest that they have any white supremacist tendencies

I don’t even buy on Steam anymore. I’m tired of my shit being stored on other people’s computers. If I won’t own the game I buy, then I don’t buy the game.

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I mean, the animals we’ve been killing and eating might have disagreed. This logic only works in this particular discussion if you take an explicitly anthropocentric view of morality. In which case, the dignity of the animal is not a factor in the first place.

I’m not trying to be an asshole about this, I’m having a discussion about the foundations for our morals, and the justifications for thinking something is morally good or bad. Your initial comment intimated that you think the situation in question is morally bad because you think it’s grotesque and violates the animal’s dignity. If dignity is a factor in the morality of it, then raping cows to produce milk is also bad.

I don’t recall any sexualization of minors in SEL… Can you point out a scene? I’m generally pretty strict about what goes on that list, and am always happy to prune it

Rape and murder are also part of our evolution, but nobody ever makes excuses for those. We can overcome the parts of our nature that are ethically wrong.

Idunno dude, I feel like If you’re against fucking a dead deer on the deer’s account, you should be against raping a living cow on the cow’s account. If you’re ok with raping living cows on the human’s account, you should be ok with fucking a dead deer on the human’s account.

What we evolved to do doesn’t factor into it. Both of those are unnatural.

No no you don’t get it, God had to allow slavery because there was no way the humans in that time would put up with not having slaves. He had to make some concessions. Telling everyone to cut off their baby’s foreskin though, that’s fair game

It’s right before the part in Matthew chapter 5, where Jesus says “unless you’re a star, for in that case you can do anything. Grab them by the pussy, you can do anything.”

Personally I think it’s valuable to suss out the source of our moral beliefs. If you can’t explain why you think it’s morally wrong to have sex with a roadkill deer, then you either don’t think it’s morally wrong, or you’re letting your disgust response dictate your moral beliefs. There’s a huge difference between “I refuse to do this because I think it’s gross,” and “I think someone should be jailed for doing this because I think it’s gross.” I think the latter is far more harmful than the former. See: all the morally neutral things Christians want outlawed.

“Lean not upon your own understanding” is a goated debate strat tbh