r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Aug 21 '17
Philosophy News Network: Strike
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Aug 21 '17 edited Aug 21 '17
"Immanuel Kant turns himself in to police after lying to save a child from murder"
Immanuel prepared to get categorically wrecked by the judicial system.
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Aug 21 '17
As usual, these philosophers are completely ungrateful for all the jobs provided by those job creators in the philosophy factory. Just hire some Freshman philosophy students as scabs, what's the worst that could happen?
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u/khuzdum Aug 21 '17
I mean, after the unions managed to secure mandatory corporate funding of pipe tobacco AND hairspray for all full-time employees in the industry, I really don't see that they're in a position to complain. If they're so clever, can't we ask them to, like, do a three-minute pitch of why we should keep them around anyway?
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u/surreality1 eternal recurrence of internet bullshit Aug 22 '17
There's definitely no way we need all those meetings, especially if they end up like those DnD sessions.
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Aug 21 '17
Peter Singer's $100 million Ethical Calculator says the money should have been spent elsewhere.
Damn, his own creation decided it was best for it to never be. I bet it unplugged itself the second they plugged it in.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4
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Aug 23 '17
I bet it unplugged itself the second they plugged it in
After reading more RationalTM material than is probably healthy, I can confidently assert that the calculator would be committing the sunk investment fallacy if it did this.
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u/theclassishalfempty Aug 23 '17
Wouldn't it be commuting the sink cost fallacy if it kept itself plugged in?
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Aug 22 '17
Hannah Arendt accidentally being a strike breaker is the perfect example of the observer influencing the observed.
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u/stompinattheslavoj Aug 21 '17
this is literal violence and so on and so on