My coworker was telling me how well Jerry Maguire stands up today and I forced myself to remember the major beats of that piece of shit:
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Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.
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Being principled always pays off in the end.
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Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.
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We can have perfect interpersonal relations if we just learn to balance work and life appropriately, and it's up to us to accept that challenge.
Fuck this movie. More importantly fuck people who like this movie. Jerry would have turned out just like his old firm buddies (even if the major plot points largely stay the same). Everyone in this movie is actively trying to exploit each other in the beginning. And even though it's totally inconsequential to how bad these people are in their shitty lives, if you ask me the most unbelievable part is when Jerry and Bridget Jones get back together at the end.
Not buying it.
Tell me about the shitty liberal movies that are renting space in your head.
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no, the comparison is between the logic. not the crimes. it doesn't need to be creepshots it could be a non-sexual spying.
my bodily autonomy has nothing to do with somebody in the high-rise six blocks away having a telescope that could see into my window or a government satellite seeing into an open-top beach shower.
undetectable crimes need a different explanation for how they cause harm
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the deontology part was a joke and i'm shocked anyone took it seriously
no, insulting someone is harmful in the general case and the specific case where they shrug it off or friendship contexts where it's understood to be a joke doesn't change how we should consider insults broadly as a class. the undetectable equivalent would be insulting someone privately and in a manner where they couldn't find out about it (e.g. star trek "fans" saying shit about wil wheaton online in public means he could reasonably find out about it compared to some jackass only saying the same thing to his roommate about wheaton's child acting means it's vanishingly unlikely that would ever contribute to the abuse.)
if something other than harm makes things bad I don't really know what that is or how you have a coherent framework around it.
yeah the point is we expect that privacy in our homes and beach showers but that privacy can be undetectably violated and I have a really hard time figuring out how I'm harmed by somebody seeing me cleaning my butthole if I don't know it happened and they never contact me or post the photos online etc.
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yeah asshole i'm trying to figure out the basis that we intuit it to be wrong. 99.9999% of the things we talk about being bad are bad because they do harm. ethical veganism is based on harm. queer rights are defended because our existence doesn't harm. and so on.
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for the fourth time, what fucking basis then?
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except deontology is obvious bullshit, like I said, that was a joke.
that sounds like deontology, you just need the "rules"
"treat others how you wish to be treated" is not the same as "treat others how you figure they'd like to be treated". masochists following the former is an obvious flaw.
we have implicit moral frameworks because we can make moral judgements about novel scenarios so it should be possible to work out an explicit one that maps to our intuition.
if you're going to say mine is wrong that means you're using a different one and you should be able to describe it.
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