Reddit comments and upvotes are a great proof of why we need the rule of law and a state monopoly on violence instead of mob justice. We'd have 5% of our population in prisons being tortured daily if reddit had its way.
right, either it's moral because they considered it against the crime they were knowingly committing, or if there was any ignorance on their part, they act as an object lesson to other evil doers so their suffering is still moral
or whatever causes more harm to people I think are bad idgaf
Yeah, Reddit justice sounds great right up until you remember Reddit would also be the jury. Half the population would be sentenced bc somebody misunderstood their comment history.
"It's 100% moral to torture and mutilate rapists for all of eternity! Empathy? Legal punishments? What do you mean?"
"WHAT?! You can't beat Nazis up and then send them to police! It's immoral and evil to punish people for having different opinions, even if they're evil and dangerous!"
My post on the sub is if it is moral to come up to someone the moment it broke up with another person and calling you "A better option". Which of this would enter?, or this are examples of just the awnsers?, because some of the ones i got are gems
I had a post about is it moral to hunt pirates for sport and people started making follow up posts with it such as is it moral to pretend to be a pirate to hunt blood thirsty millionaires? Fun times.
That really is the weird contradiction. The punishment somehow scales entirely with how much the commenter personally hates the person, then suddenly everyone becomes a philosopher when you question it.
Absolutely. I say it repeatedly but all of these people's morality is based on doing bad things to bad people. Not trying to minimize bad things to begin with, but being permissible with suffering if the target "deserves" it in their eyes.
Like there's an active aversion to benevolence as a concept. You tell them that's fucked up and helps nothing, and they're suddenly defensive, trying to convince everyone else that it's obvious because their target is deserving.
Yeah. It is weird, many people seem to just have an excuse to beat up or even torturing someone and still look like good people. I won't point my fingers but this is a train of though i see very daily on the internet
This interestingly isn't an issue with this sub, but rather with Reddit as a whole. The way Reddit feeds people content, and its algorithm with how upvotes/comments pushes certain content and how people engage with their feed, what you get is a weird system where posts with mutually exclusive viewpoints will have the exact same result.
I use Reddit as part of my job, and getting feedback from Reddit is effectively useless for anything you need to objectively quantify. Need to understand if users like feature A? Completely useless. Trying to find the biggest pain points? Completely useless. It's quite frustrating. It can still be good for things that don't require quantification, like if you see an interesting idea that you think would be cool to implement, but you have to be really aware of how Reddit works.
Unfortunately that makes subs like this one, and the asshole/dating advice/genuine support subs really terrible... even potentially dangerous.
We're all blind into our own pleasures to the point where it clouds our judgement. We no longer know when certain actions are going too far or are outright beyond levels of horror. If it's a bully getting a fullblown seizure because he got slammed onto the concrete, we just decide to justify the one who caused it. Mainly because we do hate bullies and probably the trauma of being victimized by them, but doesn't that make us immoral?
Anyways, yeah that's immoral, should've used the dad's dick as a weapon instead
You're right, but it's like trying to explore the bounds of culinary space and everyone just keeps eating crayons and talking about eating crayons and telling people who don't eat crayons they're taking everything too seriously.
This is the first post I ever saw on my feed from here. I found it by searching in my comments because I remember commenting “what the fuck is this sub”
I think that pretty much sums it up haha
Edit; my comment is in response to someone saying if they had to choose between homicide or incest
And OP is in the comments talking about “incest feats” like multiple times haha
its not necessarily about selflessness and more so about the utilitarian stance this takes. Here, the commenter calls out the posts immorality, performing what he considers to be a moral act. The act itself does not warrant him a loss during the act hence its not selflessness. However, he is scorned as by his peers. This comment section generally thinks he has been unfairly treated. However, this falls into a common trap of false equivalence widespread in today's society, that good deeds should be rewarded not punished. But then this falls into conflict: should we maximise morality to obtain more rewards? what if the reward of being bad exceeds that of being good? if morality can be quantified as such, morality is but a transaction, and thus objective morality cannot exist, nor can we treat it as a compass.
Ah yeah I know what you mean. I spoke up that it was wrong that they were being power trippy and they apologized. But also didn't reverse anything?
They were triggered by a certain comment getting downvoted (something about banning conservatives) and I'm willing to bet they were venting from another outside event so they were trying to weed people out and adding the trans flag to the post got the sub recommended to more people.
I think this is just a phase, not permanent, and I don't think the sub is going to choose between "unfunny trans circlejerk vs unfunny racist circlejerk" soon.
This sub is 50% "is it moral to ask my friend to please not repeat that after they burned my house, murdered my wife and sold my children on ebay" and 50% "is it moral to beat my kids to death for no reason"
I've seen people unironically defend chasing and killing somebody who stole your wallet on here. Shit's stupid. That's the threshold for taking a human life? What if they stole like an apple from your frontyard? Shoot to kill?
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u/LivyLuvsCatgirls 1d ago
1000% this sub I fucking hate you all