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4th law of robotics

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16. It's like original sin in the Catholic dogma
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:46 AM
Nov 2012

everyone (although just males in this case) is born with all the sins of their predecessors (in this case just their male predecessors).

Nothing they personally do or avoid doing has any bearing on this. Some are worse criminals than others based on their actions but you're already starting out birth as a monster simply for choosing to have a Y-chromosome (the most evil and oppressive of letters; it kind of looks like a stick figure of male genitals).

Beyond simply being loony it's kind of a dangerous philosophy. There are some (not many thankfully) people who may take this to heart and say "fuck it, if I'm already a horrible person in their eyes for something I didn't do why should I regulate my behavior?".

The Catholics found that the hell and damnation sermons were good at getting up attendance. . . to a point. After a while it generates a certain fatalism that leads to apathy so they had to tone back a bit and re-emphasize confession (a loophole) to give people some hope.

Right now I think radfems are making the same realizations, hence the loophole they're offering: if you confess your sins we'll consider forgiving you . . . maybe.

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