this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
787 points (92.5% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

26715 readers
3728 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Come on, you know that creatures who evolved the capacity for linguistic communication adapted to external forces with more than just greater and greater violence. We're not whispering cobras. We're creatures that demand community. The reason we even feel emotions like shame and love is to bond us together as a tribe for greater protection.

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The reason we even feel emotions like shame and love is to bond us together as a tribe for greater ~~protection~~ violence.

FTFY.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, social structure only does violence? At this point I'm convinced you're just moralizing your own traumas. Are we heading for anti-natalism?

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, anti-natalism would be anti-progress. Evolution is a process that should continue to happen. Even Evolution is violence. Violence is necessary for life. It's a core part of what allowed us to exist in the first place. It's one of the fundamental forces of life. The problem is seeing violence as inherently bad. Or humans as inherently special.

Once you start viewing humanity the same way you'd view organisms in a Petri Dish, you'll have gotten it. Higher order functionality is neat and all, but fundamentally not shattering to our basic goals. It doesn't overwrite our core reason for being: To spread.

When talking about something like Game Theory, one of the most effective strategies follows only a few basic rules:

  1. Cooperate with others.
  2. If wronged, strike back.
  3. Don't hold a grudge.

So - as you can see - even the most effective, cooperative strategies, employ violence.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I see! Well, isn't it also true that even the most effective violent strategies also employ cooperation? Why only highlight the violence - is it to serve a need or narrative?

[–] thantik@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe...because that's the focus of the original post...

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.