ilzolende asked: hate meme: anti-transhumanist pro-mortality bioethicists
It never fails to amaze me how bioethicists manage to be wrong about everything, like, I would expect that there would be a point where I would agree with bioethicists out of sheer reversed-stupidity-is-not-intelligence AND YET every time I see a viewpoint attributed to a bioethicist it is inevitably fucking stupid
bioethicists: wrong on death, wrong on suicide, wrong on augmentation, wrong on cures, wrong on ice cream cones, wrong for America
Yeah … the ice cream cone thing surprised me when I heard about it.
Wait, what. I thought Ozy was just throwing out a random joke to further take the piss out of bioethicists. I just googled and… wow. I’m irl laughing really hard. This is The Onion-grade material right here, except it actually happened.
I KNOW, RIGHT? I Googled it and got halfway through an incredulous response with a lot of ellipses in sheer astonishment that a human being said that while being serious and is still taken seriously when using that argument about non-ice cream subject matter.
Unrelatedly, I walked down the street eating ice cream today. It was great.
Transhumanists: Because they think ice cream is morally OK.I… I guess being opposed to enjoyment and self-direction at least lets you be consistent in opposing everything transhumanist.
“Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone—a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive.”
“This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.”