• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Douglas Adams actually explored this. In The Restaurant at The End of the Universe, Arthur is waited upon by a sentient bovine creature whose species wants to be eaten and spend their lives conditioning themselves to be as succulent as possible.

    Arthur was preeetty fuckin weirded out by that.

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      9 days ago

      Yeah, is it consent if you are genetically forced to be consenting?

      I loved that part of the book, fellow hitchhiker.

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        9 days ago

        Is it consent if everything is deterministic and free will is an illusion???

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        9 days ago

        genetically forced

        Dude is deep as the 10th circle of hell.

        Cuz like are they forced? They were spawned by the infinitely possible universe. Implying that free will itself is fundamentally constrained by biology, or perhaps the deterministic nature of the universe itself.

        It reminds me of the lyrics,

        Are we not good enough?

        Are we not brave enough?

        Is the violence in our nature

        Just the image of our maker?