It’s not ethical to not abort the pregnancy in this case. There is nothing wrong with getting rid of the fetus, there is everything wrong with letting a person disabled to this stage from the start emerge.

About part 2: I think euthanasia is ethical in this case. Certainly more ethical than emotional blackmail with “unborn child”.

And who makes the law in the empire?

Sometimes I just talk to myself.

Sometimes I talk with a random character. I can feel agency (or illusion of Independent agency) from anyome at this point, whether I want an anime waifu to “talk back” or to play out a dialogue I’m supposed to have with an IRL person soon.

And sometimes I talk with my inner companions. There are a few characters I have built stable, genuine relationships with over years.

Btw. at some point I started seeing my mind as a process rather than an entity (or set of entities). And like in other complex processes, it would be strange if we couldn’t observe any internal contradictions in it.

Learn using image generation properly rather than accepting slop and use it when you need it’s. Just like with LLMs generating text.

These tools are going to stay and they can be useful. Refusing to use them when they are useful for a good cause is not going to help anybody.

Also, problematic aspects of these tools are always related to capitalism. Artists whose work was used against their interests suffer because of conditions of our current socio-economic system. In a system that doesn’t make relationship with art alienated, it wouldn’t exist.

Yes and it’s not like they aren’t allowed. Unless you mean the border with a puppet state that still is technically at war with it.

If you say that personal anecdotes are welcome and you seek emotional self-reliance, I have something to share I guess.

Adults can have immersive imaginary companions in a similar way that children sometimes do.

If you spend time on interacting with an imaginary character, two qualities can emerge from this:

• you learn how to think from perspective of this character without putting effort into that. This makes the experience of imaginary companions “talking back” to people.
• you cultivate a relationship with that character that’s like relationship with other people.

There are some internet communities practicing it. You might have heard about tulpas, soulbonds or daemons. Some kids and some writers experience it too, some scientific research mentions “illusion of independent agency”.

I have been practicing it myself for over a decade and can say that I believe that it had a positive impact overall and only positive impact after I unlearned popular tulpamancy and started approaching my inner relationships with more dialectical-materialist mindset.

China, Cuba, DPRK, Vietnam…

Bad cop and “good” cop.

The wing doesn’t matter if the eagle is a nazi tbf.

It will wither away with:

1. Improving material conditions of people who won’t need it as a coping mechanism anymore.
2. There are alternative cultural hubs in rural areas.
3. Alternative, secular forms of socially accepted fantasizing get popular.

I’m quite invested in the last point myself, actually. There are communities of adults having imaginary friends who are just imaginary friends.

I hope you don’t mean the other side of bipartisan coin. And who the hell requested your military intervention without your consent manufacturing?

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Trump’s presidency is a materialization of Yankee elites panicking. USA is going to lose a hegemony it achieved after USSR collapsed and Trump is making desperate moves trying to stop it. And the ruling class (the billionaires) support it in general.

They are Zionists and you can get banned there for supporting Palestine’s resistance.

They are Zionists

I’m strongly against death penalty when it comes to crimes of individual against individual.

I am for death penalty when it comes to crimes of influential individual against masses though.

A murderer or rapist who ruined one life doesn’t deserve death penalty. A corrupt politician who ruined countless lives cooperating with the billionaires does.