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asim ◴[02 Nov 25 06:34 UTC] No.45788244[source]▶
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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krona ◴[02 Nov 25 07:13 UTC] No.45788428[source]▶
Capital misallocation do be like that, but I don't think that capital would be feeding children in the Congo if it wasn't for Facebook's latest folly.
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notmyjob[dead post] ◴[02 Nov 25 07:26 UTC] No.45788487[source]▶
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1. SR2Z ◴[02 Nov 25 08:53 UTC] No.45788849[source]▶
Unless you're gonna no-true-Scotsman this, plenty of wealthy Christians are deeply unpleasant and selfish people. Going to church does not make people good.
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2. pfannkuchen ◴[03 Nov 25 07:23 UTC] No.45796631[source]▶
They aren’t good Christians then, and if Christian social shame was still the dominant flavor of social shame we may not see such egregious behavior (not arguing there would be perfection, of course).
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3. SR2Z ◴[03 Nov 25 08:33 UTC] No.45797016[source]▶
So, hypothetically, how many people do you think call themselves good Christians and then turn around a say that homosexuality sends people to hell? What does the Bible have to say about abortion, really?

You say Christian social shame, those are the very first things that come to mind.

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4. wussboy ◴[03 Nov 25 13:59 UTC] No.45798997[source]▶
No True Scotsman it is.
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5. pfannkuchen ◴[03 Nov 25 14:59 UTC] No.45799735{3}[source]▶
Well I’m an atheist, but it’s undeniable that Christianity used to be the dominant moral police in the west and it no longer is. If you stop enforcing morality with shame then people don’t follow it as much. Which part of that is wrong?
6. pfannkuchen ◴[03 Nov 25 17:07 UTC] No.45801395{3}[source]▶
Well, morality isn’t universal. It’s basically a distributed operating system for large human groups. Different operating systems exist.

The modern western morality is different from Christianity in a lot of ways. So, yes, a person executing classical Christian morality would shame for those things and consider them wrong. I’m an atheist so I don’t have to agree with them, and I didn’t make their rules, that’s just what they are.

I’m also not claiming that Christianity enforcing a morality would make better “people”. It would just make better (i.e. more consistent and less hypocritical) “Christians”.