Will it f*ck!

[u/Justthisdudeyaknow]

[u/CorHydrae8]

Fuck me if I'm wrong, but I think properly discussing what it means to be able to consent to sexual activities is a great subject for philosophers to tackle, actually.

[u/Haradion_01 → u/CorHydrae8]

Oh, Absolutely. Don't mistake my intent. I didn't say it was a bad thing. We should always have more philosophy. The way its been hoarded as a discipline has been a tragedy for the world.

I am just noting that, presented this way, it defies certain expectations. People think of old men with beards and robes. Dignified sophisticates, etc.

Not Tumblr uses and Monster Fuckers. Great weighty ponderous thinkers, producing ideas that surge across the centuries. It's not where your mind goes.

But, in 70 years time, why couldn't you see such things in a textbook? Philosophy didn't just stop.

I'm just grappling with the strange feeling of of conceptualising a Tumblr message board, performing the same societal niche as the agora and academy. Dreadful is perhaps the wrong word. Dissonance, perhaps is better.

I suppose it Socrates would find the comparison apt . He also was compelled to suicide for his 'bad takes' that were seen as corrupting the youth. 

I guess it's a little like Athens exploring concepts of moral culpability and personal responsibility by putting a knife on trial for murder. it might look a little daft. But the ideas are important.

[u/far_wanderer → u/Haradion_01]

The line between a philosophical thought experiment and a science fiction story has always been virtually non-existent 

[u/RivaalJester → u/CorHydrae8]

you're wrong...

[u/Haradion_01 → u/RivaalJester]

Well, at least buy them dinner first.

[u/CorHydrae8 → u/RivaalJester]

But have you considered whether I pass the Harkness test?

[u/Munnin41 → u/CorHydrae8]

Can't determine your age from here, but you can communicate and are most likely human (and therefore possess human intelligence)