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FirstWorldChaika t1_j8h51d5 wrote

If I'm not affecting or hurting anyone in any way then what I do with my tech/hardware/software is none of your business.

How you're going to know what people do with their shit, surveillance?

Who's going to decide what's degenerate and what is not, you?

Are you that much of a saint that you feel you have the right to know what people do in the privacy of their room/house/minds/body and judge them? I really would like to know who you are if that's the case man, you must have an holy aura around you and everything!

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[deleted] OP t1_j8h8vym wrote

I'm not saying that people should be stopped from doing what they want. I'm just saying that thinking about what standards you should hold yourself to is not a bad idea. Just because you can drink a ton of alcohol doesn't mean its a good idea. The problem is that with advanced technologies the things you can do but probably will have consequences you won't like are far more complex and numerous than they are now. At least trying to come up with a framework to deal with these issues is something futurists ought to do.

Let me ask you. Would you really want to spend a century pursuing nothing but hyper-depraved hedonism just because you can and would you personally respect someone who did that?

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KeepItASecretok t1_j8hoewf wrote

There is no meaning in life, except the meaning we make.

Whether hedonism or a life of discipline, there is no objective difference when we all turn into dirt, but at least the hedonist can say they experienced everything life had to offer.

It doesn't matter, and focusing on it is a waste of time and energy.

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