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  • It was a game for PC around the year 2000, I don’t even know the name of it. I’ve been searching for it for years. It’s a point and click adventure game.

    The premise is your spaceship breaks down on an alien planet. If you try to repair the ship immediately a giant alien spider will come and kill you.

    After searching for a while you end up making friends with one of the aliens and sneak around one of the villages looking for parts.

    I never made it past that point.

    I highly doubt anyone will know what this is, I’ve tried multiple times on that reddit sub for games people can’t remember.







  • Philosophically, yes.

    Epistemologically, no.

    The presupposition that ethics are founded on a principle of intellectual superiority is not generally accepted.

    Though, not too long ago it was. We regard people with those beliefs as racist or sexist these days.

    I think it is more commonly accepted that their reduced intelligence facilitates less awareness, therefore, less suffering.

    Suffering is the metric we’re truly evaluating here, which is why Foie Gras is illegal in multiple countries, even though ducks can be butchered and sold legally.

    But if Foie Gras is immoral, then when does exploitation become moral? What is the condition where exploitation becomes ethical? How can you grade suffering? Is it intuitive? Is it just arbitrary?

    Personally, I think any exploitation is immoral, so I don’t eat animal products.