An Alchemist's altruistic suicide.

Greetings friends. Please, take a seat. Tonight, I tell you the tale of Sevat and his noble sacrifice for the greater good.

The game, Pathfinder. The setting, homebrew.

Sevat's backstory was unfortunately never fleshed out. I wish I could come up with something on the fly for you all, but that would not do the character justice. His character sheet has long since been reduced to ash, and so instead I wish to immortalize him and his valiant efforts here, on All Things D&D.

Sevat was a Ratfolk Alchemist. Now, Ratfolk are quite a unique character race. Coming with +2 Dex and +2 Int, they make for some extremely intricate builds, as those two abilities often do not come paired together. Additionally, they are Small, gaining +1 AC for the size difference, and another +4 to Stealth. I took the Tinker racial feat, giving me +2 to Craft (Alchemy). Lastly, a Ratfolk Alchemist gets +1/6 bonus to Discovery. Basically what this means is that for every 6 class levels, you get +1 free Discovery, which is a mechanical means for coming up with new concoctions to brew and make.

Alchemists use Intelligence for their concoctions, and as they progress they "Discover" new techniques and brews with which to utilize.

Now, bombs are very tricky to work with. Per the rules, they must be used in the round they are created, or they become inert. That is to say, you can not prepare a whole slew of bombs and stow them away. I'm sure a DM could houserule this restriction away, or perhaps extend their use out to something like 1d4 minutes, but mine did not. You either use it or lose it. Fair enough.

So, we adventure. This was really more of a one-shot session to try and get others involved into the game. I wanted to make something fun and memorable. I'll be honest here, Guardians of the Galaxy had just come out and I really wanted to make Rocket Raccoon. So, I made Sevat, the Ratfolk Alchemist instead. Absolutely insane, driven mad by the constant inhalation of toxic fumes. As this was a one-shot, he had no background. He just loved making things that go BOOM!

We all start fairly high level. Not really sure, but probably around Character Level 6 or 7. I don't think it was 8 or higher, as I don't recall having a second ability score increase. I'm fairly confident it was around CL 6.

The rest of the party was an Elf Druid and her Companion, a Half-Orc Knight, some kind of a Ranger and I believe someone else but I can not recall.

We all became acquainted after introductions

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People who ask you to stay alive, want to put you in hospital, stop you from suicide aren't altruistic. They're selfish.

Of course, it's okay to be selfish. Do what you want to make you feel better.

But face it. You don't try to save someone else. You are trying to prevent their acts to impact your sanity. You are trying to protect yourself.

Suicidal people suffer. They want to end it. You can help them, support them, even chain them to their beds if you want. But admit it. You aren't doing this for them. You are doing this for you. For your feelings.

Because you can't admit to let people go, to let people do what they want. To let people end their pain.

There is only one exception, it's people who have kids. They are responsible for them, they don't have the right to end it.

Otherwise, everybody should be able to choose what they want to do with their lives. If you stop them, admit it's selfish, do it anyway, but don't pretend it's altruistic.

Thank for reading.

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Trigger Warning: Adverse Reactions to an Attempted Altruistic Suicide?

This mostly comes from a place of ignorance, as I have never found myself tempted (not sure the right word) with the idea of suicide or self harm ever really, but I was playing in a campaign and we were in a sticky spot, so I decided that my character would sacrifice himself so that the party could escape. I personally think I described it very eloquently, but I got a very adverse reaction from this group that I was playing in. It seemed odd to me, because similar things have happened in plenty of other campaigns and there was never this kind of reaction. Like, not just anger at my character, but me personally. I got a whisper from the DM after I described what I was about to do, and he said "Don't do that". I didn't want to make people upset or go against my DM, so I ended up not doing it, but it made it cheap. Like, it was actually emotional and then I basically had to change his mind. I got messages after of people upset that I thought that was ok.

I honestly just want to know what other people think about having PCs sacrifice themselves to save the party. Is it just a kind of thing you have to make a judgement about depending on the people you are playing with? I really don't want to upset people in DnD games. I've just never experienced this kind of reaction before.

Edit: I don't know if "tempted" is the word I am going for but I can't think of a better one. Maybe considered?

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TIL of George R. Price, a population geneticist known for developing the most widely accepted mathematical interpretation of altruism. After realizing his equation implied that altruistic behavior serves an innate selfish purpose, Price became increasingly depressed and eventually committed suicide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo…
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TIL Switzerland allows assisted suicide even by non physicians if carried out for altruistic/unselfish reasons theguardian.com/news/2019…
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u/Readylamefire explains the altruistic reasoning behind suicide from the perspective of our ancestors [xpost from r/science] reddit.com/r/science/comm…
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What's your opinion on people who say: "I can't commit suicide because my parent/partner/friend will be deeply hurt"? Are they sincere? Is this behavior altruistic? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Altruistic suicide?

This probably sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I'd really like to find a way to successfully commit suicide in some fashion that allows someone to find me quickly enough after "clinical death" so that the medical community can harvest whatever organs they could use to better other people's lives (and so the pups are found before they start chewing off my face - kind of glad I don't have any cats at this point in my life.). Death seems the only viable option at this point (will spare you from the reasoning behind this choice , just suffice to say that I've been fighting that battle since the age of 16. Perhaps I'll muster the motivation to write a post in the future outlining the reasoning for the decision). I'm tired. So very, very tired. The battle doesn't seem worth it after over two decades of war.

Curious if anyone has heard of someone managing to accomplish this.

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YSK that suicide terrorism is an altruistic and strategic act and has little to do with religion

This is basically going to be a brief summary of Robert Pape's excellent book, "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism". My reason for writing this is that - after hearing much dissection of the recent Moscow underground attacks - it is clear that many people are still assuming that religion (with specific focus on Islamic fundamentalism) is the key motivator for terrorism and especially suicide terrorism.

If you've not heard of it, Robert Pape's book (published 2005) is an exhaustive study of modern suicide terrorism and clearly shows nationalism, not religion, as being the bedrock of most terrorist activities. Suicide terrorism is a logical and altruistic act and usually part of a sustained, strategic campaign, not the result of a lone, religiously motivated nutjob. Two things to note here: 1) the majority of suicide terrorists are atheists or of indeterminate religious belief (although not sure how long this fact will stand following the demise of the LTTE) 2) suicide is a far greater societal taboo in Islamic cultures than in most Western cultures/religions.

The treatment of suicide terrorists by the 'enemy' is also strikingly similar to 'our' treatment of our own soldiers: we ritualise combat and mythologise the fallen; we heighten the nobility of the act and stress to all those remaining that none of this is in vain and in fact helps our end goal.

The book is a great antidote to the crushing ignorance surrounding the causes of terrorism with obvious emphasis on suicide terrorism.

I'm sure you want some facts to back this all up and I'm afraid you just have to read Pape's study, but I'll leave you with an example (and it's not an isolated one) that absolutely floored me.

During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the mid 80s, Hezbollah (a radical, Islamic, nationalist group) 'discovered' the power of the suicide campaign. There were 41 separate suicide attackers aimed at Israeli, American and French targets in the years from 1982-86 - killing a total of 659 people. Take a moment to imagine the demographic of those suicide attackers.

Now here's how they break down:

  • 27 communist or socialist
  • 8 fundamental Muslim
  • 3 Christian
  • 3 undetermined

Fewer than 20% had any affiliation with radical Islam. And no, this is not the only example of a Christian suicide bomber.

Please, read the book. Or read any academic study on the rationale of ter

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Sinister - Altruistic Suicide youtube.com/watch?v=iqkih…
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Why does suicide prevention focus on curbing the supply of suicide (hiding the means) rather than the demand for it? Is it because curbing the demand for suicide involves shared sacrifice (all of us being more altruistic to make society a kinder place)?
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Responsibility of altruistic behavior during suicidality of friends

Let's take a situation (not even a hypothetical one) where are friend of yours is in acute suicidality because of traumatic events triggered a situation in the present. This friend wants to kill themselve now what responsibility do you have, not only as a friend but as a human? Now we come to the point why I made this inquiries in this Subreddit - because of the free will dilemma. Ought I act to remind them of their responsibility and their "free will" to take certain decisions in consideration. Like going to a mental hospital and say "they ought to decide as a free agent" although this is an obvious lie. To come to a conclusive question here: "How ought I to act during the suicidally of a friend and staying intellectually honest and help them most adequately?"

P.S. Sorry if the question was poorly formulated and totally wrong here. I wanted to know how we need to act accordingly to Sam Harris and the "Free will" because we can't blame criminals nor mental sick people. Thank you kindly for reading.

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Getting the altruists to suicide.

Kifflom! I'm super fucking excited to post this because so far I haven't seen this in game or on the sub, and it seems to be a pretty big deal. I was dicking around on PS4, non-100% with invincibility and super jump. I went to the altruist camp as Michael and was attacked, but instead of fighting i just looked around. Long story short, i fell off the mountain right in front of the sacrificial stone. However, as I started super jumping back up the cliffside, altruists began diving head firts off the mountain after me, and it looked pretty sacrificial. I apologize for not having any evidence of this, but it's incredibly simple to replicate, just lead the altruists off the cliff by th stone and they should follow right behind you. I know that some people are iffy on using cheats on certain saves and what not, so if you can manage to get down off the cliff without invincibility then I recommend you do so. For everyone else who doesnt worry about cheats though,i recommend you give this a try. I dont get a chance to frequent this sub like I used to, so I dont really know what to do with this discovery, but that's where you bros come in. I hope this info helps someone out!

Edit: I'm fucking stupid. Carry on.

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I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, MANDATORY READING: COINTELPRO DOC TEXT FORMAT

original post from u/TheGooombler

Now is the time to realize that you are taking on the establishment at large and that there will be pushback, understand that the growth of your community is a threat. I saw a post just now that raised a big red flag for me and reminded me that I should share this document with your community so that you all can be aware of what will happen to destroy it.

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HOLY SHIT A SCRIPT ON HOW TO DESTROY A COMMUNITY, SURE WOULD HATE FOR THIS TO JUST BE CASUALLY LEFT OUT IN THE O- WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

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  1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
  2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
  3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
  4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
  5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

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COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slid

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Tony doesn’t commit a single act of altruistic good during the entire show.

Not one. Everything he does is by either ruthless self-interest, anger/annoyance, or unadulterated malice. Try it and see. Letting Artie draw on him? Nope. He did that because he felt guilty about the restaurant. Forgiving Artie’s 50k? Nope. See above. Rescuing AJ? Maybe close, but I’d argue that saving a child’s life if more a paternal instinct than an choice. Also T’s demented β€œpep talk” probably helped caused the incident in the first place. No. Tony is irredeemably evil. Six seasons: no goodness.

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"Death of an altruist" by James Schwartz. The story of George Price, chemist turned biologist, and atheist turned Christian, whose life ended in suicide. linguafranca.mirror.thein…
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2021 reading summary and selected reviews

I know I’m a few days late to the party but I finally managed to complete my 2021 summary, so here it is.

THE NUMBERS

51 books read, plus one DNF. Two books were physical copies, the rest were on kindle. No audiobooks. This includes part of a 2020 Bingo card, a complete 2021 Bingo card and most of a second 2021 card. This was in line with my objectives for the year, as I wanted to see if I could complete two 2021 Bingo cards. I have eight books left for my second card, comfortably on track to complete it on time. Next year I’ll just do one card, as I have some series and non-genre reads to catch up on.

23 Fantasy, 20 Science Fiction, 6 Horror and 2 genre-related nonfiction. Some books have elements of multiple genres, so these numbers are approximate.

30 books by new-to-me authors (Book Bingo working as intended!). The majority of these books were good or better, and several were truly excellent.

26 Female and 25 Male authors as far as I know (allowing for some multi-author books and some authors for whom I read more than one book), with apologies for any mis-gendering.

THE BOOKS

I don’t give books numerical ratings, as I find it impossible to give consistent ratings over the course of a year. Similarly, my choice for the top books would change from day to day. However, there are certainly books that stand out from the rest, so here are some short(ish) comments on my notable books of the year (NB possible minor spoilers). The categories that I’ve used are arbitrary and I’ve chosen to restrict books to one category only, which forced some interesting choices. The order in which books are listed within a category has no significance.

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BEST PROSE

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. This is a beautiful and poignant novella, telling a brief history of the titular Empress as recounted by someone who knew and loved her. Chih, a travelling cleric and scholar, visits a remote country house to learn more of the Empress of Salt and Fortune. The Empress was a victim of a forced marriage who had spent several years in exile at the house before overthrowing her husband the Emperor and becoming Empress in her own right. At the house Chih meets Rabbit, a former servant and friend of the Empress, who tells stories of the Empress’ rise to power that are prompted by various objects found around the house. Vo uses the structure of stories within a story perfectly, recounting historically significant even

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Terminator 2 is the first summer action blockbuster where the hero altruistically commits suicide.

It redefined heroism for me without realizing it.

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies πŸ˜‚

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Brutally honest description of each type (idk about you but personally I enjoy putting the "brutal" in "brutal honesty")
  1. xNTx:The Narcissists

INTJ "Get off my lawn,hippies!" -Grumpy boomer who owns pitbulls and has a "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT" sign in his backyard. "Goddamn whippersnappers! No respect for their elders! Back in my day,we used to walk 857 miles through snow and fought a giant seven-headed dragon to get to school! Kids these days just hang around on their phones!". Hates Christmas because they think that the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge were supposed to be role models.

INTP "Fedora tipping champion"-Unironically enjoys watching anime. Thinks the number 69 is peak humor. No,self-diagnosing with depression isn't the basis of your entire personality. Emo school shooter vibes sometimes ngl. Procrastination is your middle name. Basically ENTP but with the social skills of a broken chainsaw,sends you cursed memes in their free time.

ENTJ "Proud antivaxxer"-Definitely has that blond mom haircut that makes you know she's the type that tries to get a retail worker fired because she noticed a hair in her burger. No Karen,your kid doesn't have autism or depression because of vaccines,they're just shy. Stop trying to call the manager because you were told you can't get a free Big Mac. Genuinely a flat earther whose sense of humor relies on cheesy facebook minion memes.

ENTP "400 year old virgin (not a typo)"-You will never get laid. Seriously,I sometimes wonder if your mouth is even capable of being closed for more than 0.00000000000000000005 seconds,and I think even that long is too much for you. You don't have to "ACKSHUALLY!" everything,just leave things the way they are for once,Jesus Christ. You definitely stole a nerd's lunch money in elementary/middle school and pushed them into a locker.

  1. xNFx:The Hippies

INFJ "Osama bin Laden disguised as Gandhi"-Believes in astrology and essential oils. Is one of the hippies the INTJ boomer wants to force off his lawn. As the name suggests,could possibly go from peace-preaching altruist to nutjob terrorist murderer in the matter of a milisecond if their day happened to be unlucky enough. A living paradox and contradiction that will never be able to be fully explainable by anyone,including (and especially) themselves.

INFP "We'll do it tomorrow!"-...and proceeds to not do it tomorrow either,if at all. Impossible to have a casual conversation with without having them bring up "vibes/energies/spirits/the universe". Cries so hard their eyes explode when they accidentally step on an ant. Strongly believes that listening t

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I’m addicted to being nice.

Growing up I was a massive dick and I ruined a lot of relationships because of it. I was a person who was funny and fun to be around but I was never really someone you could connect with or rely on or anything like that. About a year and a half ago I really started to change myself. I started trying to swear less, insult people less, offer help more, and be more genuine.

Nothing has ever come as close to how good it feels to help a friend. I offer it every chance I’ve gotten. I’ve helped my best friend from multiple bad relationship issues, life stress, and suicidal thoughts. I’m usually the go-to person for when people need to vent or get advice. I love it when I can help someone through their problems and keep them on their feet. I love knowing I’m a friend who people can feel safe being vulnerable around, and as egotistical as it sounds I feel great and like a good friend whenever I’ve had someone cry on my shoulder.

I love complimenting people and seeing them smile and blush. I love it when I tell a girl her dress/skirt looks nice and they do a cute spin to show it off. I love it when I compliment guys and they seem almost shocked and taken aback by it since they prolly don’t get a lot of compliments. I love complimenting the nice parts of a person when they’re self conscious about the less flattering parts of them. I love propping up my teammates and rooting for them in online games and keeping their spirits up when they aren’t doing that great.

I love how much easier it is to make friends when you’re nice. I love that people feel gravitated to talk to me because they enjoy it. I love getting hugs from friends (especially cause I’m small and they squeeze me like a teddy bear). I love it when my friends rant about things they’re passionate about in front of me, it’s so nice to see someone so genuine and eager to talk.

I’m not trying to blow my own horn here about how amazing of a person I am. It’s just that being altruistic and kind to people is the most addicting thing I can think of by far. It just feels so good, I can’t stop doing it. I genuinely cannot think of anything more pleasing to me than making another person smile. I’ve done lots of drugs, had sex, travelled a lot, nothing beats being nice.

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Just saw Knives Out the other day. Enjoyed it during the watch because I turned off my brain. Here's a rant.

Anybody who thinks Rian is redeemed in some shape or form from being called a hack writer is a hack themselves. The movie is like the worst cases of Danganronpa injected with TLJ's tisms.

The first problem I had is the sheer amount of throwaway characters that function as possible culprits. It's exactly in the same fashion as Danganronpa or Zaregoto, except Danganronpa has an entire section of the game dedicated to introducing characters one by one. Additionally each character has a unique talent and design so you won't have very much trouble memorizing all 16 of them. As for Zaregoto, which has some of the greatest character writing in its first volume alone, it fleshes out each of them, giving them personality, background, ideals and motivations.

In Knives Out, the only way the characters are distinguishable is their relation to Harlan. You are first introduced to Harlan's daughter Linda, then to her husband Dick, then to his younger son Disney, then to Johnny, who is his dead son's Neil Druckman's wife, then to her daughter Emma from 13RW, then to Walt's son, Alt Right Nazi Troll, then to Harlan's mother, then to Richard's son Random, then to Harlan's nurse Marta Sue. All of this is done in like what? 15 minutes?

Besides Marta, almost each of his relatives has had some sort of beef with Harlan so they all are potential killers. Except for the fact that you can very much rule out all of them besides Ransom after interrogation. Linda had no reason to kill him. Richard would have, if he saw that Harlan was to reveal his secret, so he had no urgency. Linda wouldn't have killed Harlan because he was her only way to get the money for her daughter. Walt wouldn't have been THAT hurt by Harlan cutting him off. Wannabe E;R doesn't even have a character of his own, and Meg hates the Alt Right so of course she is a good person.

Then we get a revelation that Marta did it on accident, which automatically rules her out as the killer because it's revealed so early on. Else it would have been a drama movie that masqueraded itself as a murder mystery, but everyone labels it a murder mystery so that couldn't have been the case.

The only reason you wouldn't think it's Ransom is because he is the biggest asshole out of all of them, so he is a REALLY obvious pick; add in the fact that he had an argument with Harlan that night that Unremarkable Republican has conveniently heard only specific fractions of. But once the movie starts focusing on him as a character, even "

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Altruistic Duty vs. Self-interested Free Will: Why the AOE is Foreshadowed to Critique the Philosophy of the Manga Ending

My theory is that the manga showed us two different timelines, a white background timeline where the characters follow the philosophy of altruistic collectivism and a black background timeline where the characters follow the philosophy of rational self-interest. As we were two sets of characters acting upon opposing philosophies, character motivations seemingly did not add up in the manga ending, leading to some strange fan interpretations of the unresolved AOE content.

On the one hand, the AOR-types see the Eren portrayed black backgrounds only as a facade and focus only on the white background scenes where Eren is characterised as a suicidal bastard that is willing to sacrifice himself for his friends and the Alliance is willing to sacrifice themselves to save people that are actively trying to genocide their kind. In the final volume, their interpretation of the story comes true as all characters set aside their rational self-interest for what they believe is the good of humanity. This is an ending where self-interest is defeated by the philosophy of collective altruism, which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Not only were these themes consistently defeated throughout the whole story, but all the black background scenes are directly opposed to the manga ending philosophically as they all focus on what the characters want to do rather than what they think they must do.

On the other hand, the YB-types completely ignore the Eren portrayed in white backgrounds and focus on the black background scenes where Eren is characterised as fully prepared to go through with full rumbling, not for the sake of others but for himself, and Jean is shown to be both be wanting to rely on Eren and willing to protect his future with Mikasa. In all the black background scenes, characters are thinking about their wants as their goal. This is diametrically opposed to altruism. I theorise that the black background timeline is about accepting the consequences of their wants, fighting for themselves, living their lives for themselves. Hence, the AOE black background ending where characters reject their duty and moralism over their self-interest and free will is still ahead.

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What is a a bisexual person doing when they’re not dating anybody?

They’re on standbi

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Toby-the-Cactus
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What do you call quesadillas you eat in the morning?

Buenosdillas

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πŸ‘€︎ u/FarronKeepSucks
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[Spoiler: 6.0] A somewhat spiritual and philosophical analysis of Endwalker

It is quite rare that a tale represents my own moral philosophy of negative utilitarianism so specifically and with this much aplomb; and so I felt inspired to write my wall-of-text take:

Hermes’ fundamental observation was that his people inflicted suffering and death in the name of a purpose which, at its completion, would only result in the suffering and death of all (Thence infinitely repeating, with rebirth).

In his own words:

>β€œTell me! Do you think it right that we sacrifice all these lives for the sake of the star?
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>And when the star has reached perfectionβ€”what then? If all who are satisfied choose to die, shall we all die in satisfaction?”

To use religious language, β€œidol worship”, to me, is the holding as your highest value, something other than the reduction of suffering. Subconsciously, I believe all people value suffering the most; but conscious ignorance of this fact leads people to value proxies for the reduction of suffering in place of it directly. For example, a person may burn his hand on a stove and conclude β€œhot stove is bad”. But at root, the only property of a hot stove which leads to it being categorized as β€œbad”, is the pain it delivers. The true enemy is pain, not the stove. And if you then spend your life destroying hot stoves, you will never end your pain. To this point, the Ascians, whose purpose (Highest value) is the nebulous β€œperfection” of the star, find at β€œduty’s end” the reward for this idol worship: suffering. And it is only through the acuteness of this suffering that they thence at last see its value (Albeit still not totally consciously), and seek the final end of pain: oblivion. Thus they commit suicide after fulfilling their personal star-aiding goals. And if their ultimate communal goal of a perfect star came to be, then their whole race would commit suicide (Following the lore's logic).

The Unsundered World is the Garden of Eden (Elpis fitting this aesthetic aptly); the Ascians ignorant of the knowledge of good and evil. Their ignorance is blissful, while it lasts; and so the Garden is seemingly idyllic. Emet-Selch and Hythlodeous are as morally lost as every other Ascian, but Hermes and Meteion are Adam and Eve (Or Adam and the serpent): they eat of the apple and see the truth (As a commenter below pointed out, Hermes'β€”and thus Meteion'sβ€”favorite food is candied apples).

When Meteion goes unto the stars to see if any others had found

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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πŸ“…︎ Dec 29 2021
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Geddit? No? Only me?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/shampy311
πŸ“…︎ Dec 28 2021
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I wanna hear your best airplane puns.

Pilot on me!!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Paulie_Felice
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E or ß?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Amazekam
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No spoilers
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Onfour
πŸ“…︎ Jan 06 2022
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Covid problems
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πŸ‘€︎ u/theincrediblebou
πŸ“…︎ Jan 12 2022
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These aren't dad jokes...

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Lance986
πŸ“…︎ Dec 15 2021
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I had a vasectomy because I didn’t want any kids.

When I got home, they were still there.

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Spi__
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Fast_Echidna_8520
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What did 0 say to 8 ?

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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πŸ‘€︎ u/designjeevan
πŸ“…︎ Jan 03 2022
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I dislike karma whores who make posts that imply it's their cake day, simply for upvotes.

I won't be doing that today!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/djcarves
πŸ“…︎ Dec 27 2021
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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/frexyincdude
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Responsibility of altruistic behavior in acute suicidality of friends

Let's take a situation (not even a hypothetical one) where are friend of yours is in acute suicidality because of traumatic events triggered a situation in the present. This friend wants to kill themselve now what responsibility do you have, not only as a friend but as a human? Now we come to the point why I made this inquiries in this Subreddit - because of the free will dilemma. Ought I act to remind them of their responsibility and their "free will" to take certain decisions in consideration. Like going to a mental hospital and say "they ought to decide as a free agent" although this is an obvious lie. To come to a conclusive question here: "How ought I to act during the suicidally of a friend and staying intellectually honest and help them most adequately?"

P.S. Sorry if the question was poorly formulated and totally wrong here. I wanted to know how we need to act accordingly to Sam Harris and the "Free will" because we can't blame criminals nor mental sick people. Thank you kindly for reading.

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Not my original work, taken from antiwork I see it’s been posted on SS. Crossposts not allowed here

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, MANDATORY READING: COINTELPRO DOC TEXT FORMAT

original post from u/TheGooombler

Now is the time to realize that you are taking on the establishment at large and that there will be pushback, understand that the growth of your community is a threat. I saw a post just now that raised a big red flag for me and reminded me that I should share this document with your community so that you all can be aware of what will happen to destroy it.

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HOLY SHIT A SCRIPT ON HOW TO DESTROY A COMMUNITY, SURE WOULD HATE FOR THIS TO JUST BE CASUALLY LEFT OUT IN THE O- WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

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  1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
  2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
  3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
  4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
  5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

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COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unr

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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πŸ“…︎ Dec 01 2021
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A Script For The Disinformationalist. You should know their strategies.

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, MANDATORY READING: COINTELPRO DOC TEXT FORMAT

posted 3 weeks ago by u/TDETLES, but is too important to be lost in time.

Now is the time to realize that you are taking on the establishment at large and that there will be pushback, understand that the growth of your community is a threat. I saw a post just now that raised a big red flag for me and reminded me that I should share this document with your community so that you all can be aware of what will happen to destroy it.

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HOLY SHIT A SCRIPT ON HOW TO DESTROY A COMMUNITY, SURE WOULD HATE FOR THIS TO JUST BE CASUALLY LEFT OUT IN THE O- WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

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  1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
  2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
  3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
  4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
  5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

_______________________________________________________________________

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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LEAKED: FBI Online PsychOps Handbook?

LEAKED: FBI Online PsychOps Handbook?

Original post from u/TheGooombler

Now is the time to realize that you are taking on the establishment at large and that there will be pushback, understand that the growth of your community is a threat. I saw a post just now that raised a big red flag for me and reminded me that I should share this document with your community so that you all can be aware of what will happen to destroy it.

_______________________________________________________________________

HOLY SHIT A SCRIPT ON HOW TO DESTROY A COMMUNITY, SURE WOULD HATE FOR THIS TO JUST BE CASUALLY LEFT OUT IN THE O- WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

_______________________________________________________________________

  1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
  2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
  3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
  4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
  5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

_______________________________________________________________________

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the foru

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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πŸ“…︎ Dec 01 2021
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Brutally honest
  1. xNTx:The Narcissists

INTJ "Get off my lawn,hippies!" -Grumpy boomer who owns pitbulls and has a "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT" sign in his backyard. "Goddamn whippersnappers! No respect for their elders! Back in my day,we used to walk 857 miles through snow and fought a giant seven-headed dragon to get to school! Kids these days just hang around on their phones!". Hates Christmas because they think that the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge were supposed to be role models.

INTP "Fedora tipping champion"-Unironically enjoys watching anime. Thinks the number 69 is peak humor. No,self-diagnosing with depression isn't the basis of your entire personality. Emo school shooter vibes sometimes ngl. Procrastination is your middle name. Basically ENTP but with the social skills of a broken chainsaw,sends you cursed memes in their free time.

ENTJ "Proud antivaxxer"-Definitely has that blond mom haircut that makes you know she's the type that tries to get a retail worker fired because she noticed a hair in her burger. No Karen,your kid doesn't have autism or depression because of vaccines,they're just shy. Stop trying to call the manager because you were told you can't get a free Big Mac. Genuinely a flat earther whose sense of humor relies on cheesy facebook minion memes.

ENTP "400 year old virgin (not a typo)"-You will never get laid. Seriously,I sometimes wonder if your mouth is even capable of being closed for more than 0.00000000000000000005 seconds,and I think even that long is too much for you. You don't have to "ACKSHUALLY!" everything,just leave things the way they are for once,Jesus Christ. You definitely stole a nerd's lunch money in elementary/middle school and pushed them into a locker.

  1. xNFx:The Hippies

INFJ "Osama bin Laden disguised as Gandhi"-Believes in astrology and essential oils. Is one of the hippies the INTJ boomer wants to force off his lawn. As the name suggests,could possibly go from peace-preaching altruist to nutjob terrorist murderer in the matter of a milisecond if their day happened to be unlucky enough. A living paradox and contradiction that will never be able to be fully explainable by anyone,including (and especially) themselves.

INFP "We'll do it tomorrow!"-...and proceeds to not do it tomorrow either,if at all. Impossible to have a casual conversation with without having them bring up "vibes/energies/spirits/the universe". Cries so hard their eyes explode when they accidentally step on an ant. Strongly believes that listening t

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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