• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I vaguely support eugenics when it comes to prevalent genetic diseases.

    If you have an incurable genetic disorder and choose to have children I judge you with the utmost disgust at your reckless selfishness.

    Condemning another person to suffer as you have for the sake of “fulfillment”

    • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I absolutely agree as somebody with a debilitating genetic disorder. Both my mother and grandmother have debilitating insomnia to the extent of having seizures after not being able to sleep for 4 to 5 days. My grandmother passed at 70 and was “glad to die”

      Lack of sleep also contributes to dementia, which my mother is dealing with early onset, at 63.

      I want children but will definitely be adopting, at least until I can confirm I won’t spread that mutation. Personally I have delayed circadian rhythm but have not yet encountered severe insomnia. Both of their insomnia symptoms began after menopause, so we’ll see if I get it at all.

      Both of my sisters also struggle with maintaining a circadian rhythm as well.

  • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Free will, the sense, that you could have done otherwise, is an illusion.

    We make choices based on either what we have to do, or what we want to do. There’s no freedom in having to do something, but you’re also not free to choose your wants. If you felt like having tea this morning instead of coffee, then having tea is the only thing you could have done. You wanted tea, not coffee. Now, if we rewind the clock back in time to the moment before you decided, you’d pick tea again, and again, and again. Everything else being the same, your desire for tea will override the desire for coffee every time. And you didn’t choose that desire.

  • kubica@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    It hasn’t gone well the times that I’ve said that it is better to not feed stray pets if you are not going to take further care of them. In the sense that helping the chances of more uncontrolled offspring just means more suffering in the end.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    In physics lab we had 2 linear polarizers and by varying their relative angle, could polarize or block all light.

    I also used a circular polarizer, but that didn’t feel as polarizing to me.