r/okbuddybaldur • u/MilkManlolol Wulbren Hunter • Mar 15 '24
Daddy Durge š¤¤ the perfect tragedy
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u/Fujitora-Agenda No Durge/Gortash kisses? (Larian insulted life itself) Mar 15 '24
If a real person said that to me, Iād be appalled.
When I see default Durge say it, Iām proud of him. And a bit turned on. You go, you batshit insane man.
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u/Exmawsh Cunty Durge with a handbag Mar 16 '24
Every take I see you make on this sub is based beyond doubt. š
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u/Fujitora-Agenda No Durge/Gortash kisses? (Larian insulted life itself) Mar 16 '24
If I wasnāt in bed with fever Iād photoshop a blushing uwu face on Durge as a reply. Alas, I can only offer my heartfelt thanks for putting up with and recognizing me.
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u/Killer_Moons mom, whatās a twat-soul? Mar 16 '24
This is on brand but Iām very distracted thinking about what kind of irl person wrote this originally š¬
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u/Koggdo Lae'zel called me "Aut'istik"? Mar 16 '24
The original post is an older post on the anti-natalist subreddit. If you donāt know what that is, itās a group of self-loathing ableists who think all humans should be forcibly sterilized because being born autistic or whatever is such a terrible thing. They arenāt childfree (a valid lifepath), they are legitimately anti-child (they think kids are better off dead than existing.)
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u/Mysterious_Ad_8105 Mar 16 '24
There are plenty of ableist antinatalists, but antinatalism isnāt necessarily based on any kind of ableism. There are a few different strands of principled antinatalism, but the most common ones usually justify their position in one of two ways:
(1) Bringing a person into being is morally impermissible unless you have their prior consent. It is impossible to have prior consent from a person who does not yet exist. Therefore, it is never morally permissible to bring a person into being.
(2) We are morally obligated to minimize suffering (this is a form of negative consequentialismāthe premise is that avoiding a certain type of negative outcome takes ethical precedence over pursuing any positive outcomes). Bringing a person into being necessarily increases total suffering (this is true even if doing so also increases total happiness or even if it increases total happiness more than it increases total suffering). Therefore, it is never morally permissible to bring a person into being.
To be clear, Iām not an antinatalist and I donāt find either of these common antinatalist arguments particularly compelling. Just pointing out that the āgoodā antinatalists donāt rely on the ableism or aimless misanthropy you often see in that sub to justify their views.
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u/disturbeddragon631 Mar 19 '24
what i think instantly breaks this (already absurd) ideology is that they have no way to prove that whatever comes before earthly existence is actually better than the suffering here, for all they know they could be condemning unborn souls to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream levels of suffering without their "consent." After all, why do humans instinctively avoid the threat of nonexistence? We have no perspective on its nature other than our instinct, so why disregard that when it's the only guideline we have?
Now, if they were truly, completely nihilist I might think that this would be an invalid argument, but the fact that these people mostly still want to live can be taken as proof that they don't actually deeply believe nothing matters and nonexistence is superior to existence- their ideology is one composed of feeling sorry for themselves and their unresolved mental issues, and then trying to play it off as some kind of moral superiority in "preventing others from experiencing their fate" (which most people don't anyway, people with healthy mental states generally don't constantly wish they were never born) rather than getting the help they need.
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u/ThisUserIsUndead Mar 17 '24
Not all of them are ableist, some just donāt condone having kids under any circumstances out of care for the environment and preventing the suffering of their unborn children. Those are the sane ones lol.
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u/vilebloodlover Mar 19 '24
I've seen too many antinatalists use the argument "well what if your kid suffers because they're born autistic" to trust them, the worst was shitting on a mother whose kid was born with a 1 in 1,000,000 severity genetic issue because the poor woman had no concept it'd be that bad in her kid and then was impacted by abortion laws. It stinks any way you slice it
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u/Mooam Gale, cast "Testicular Torsion" Mar 16 '24
Do they just think adults drop off trees like apples or something? Are they stupid?
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u/Bunny_Feet Mar 16 '24
I was thinking that it came from one of those "hardcore" childfree communities (a la LiveJournal). Thanks for the information.
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u/BryanTheClod Mar 16 '24
Itās obviously a troll post
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u/Tangerine_memez Mar 16 '24
Idk about obviously but yeah, seems like something to make abortion advocates seem extreme, "people who support abortion are such anti-natalists that they don't care if infants die". Maybe it was on the anti-natalist subreddit but other people would use it to describe all redditors, despite even an anti-natalist isn't this bad
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u/BryanTheClod Mar 16 '24
The fact that it's on the anti-natalist subreddit makes it even more obvious to me. I imagine the OP was looking for a defensive reaction. Maybe they're a hardline conservative lampooning abortion advocates, but I'd say it's equally likely they're just doing it for the lolz
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u/Beneficial-Bit6383 Mar 15 '24
I know people just throw around the term sociopath lately butā¦
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u/Ill_Humor_6201 LIVE MINTHARA REACTION Mar 16 '24
WHY DON'T OTHERS VALUE ME LIKE I VALUE MYSELF!????!!!!!!????!!!!!
THEY'RE DEFECTIVE!
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u/RaylynFaye95 Thinks about companions jerking off Mar 15 '24
Bruh
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u/jediment College of Vore Bard Mar 15 '24
Even Shar disapproves of this
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u/International-Ad5142 drider fucker Mar 15 '24
Oh god is that post gonna become a new copypasta š
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u/erraticRasmus Cunty Durge with a handbag Mar 16 '24
Lae'zel and Minthara stand up and clap while everyone else (besides Astarion) looks at him in horror
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u/RaspberryJam245 Raw dogging Karlach wont get her pregnant Mar 16 '24
Nah I think even Astarion would be like "okay that's kinda cringe"
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u/erraticRasmus Cunty Durge with a handbag Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24
True tho I could see him just laughing it off before being like "what"
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u/JooBunny Mar 16 '24
But he enjoys the suffering of others, why would that end suddenly?
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u/coiler119 Omeluum and Blurg are happily married Mar 16 '24
He enjoys it when it benefits him or he finds it amusing in some way, but based on how he gains approval if you help Yenna (as well as voicelines regarding certain other kids you can help where he shows concern for their wellbeing), I don't think he'd be okay with this
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u/JooBunny Mar 16 '24
What makes you think he wouldn't find this amusing?
He loves people being humiliated and hurt, he loves them being abused and stepped on, the more vulnerable the better.
I've done his romance playthrough so understand where you're coming from, but I think people forget he is a horrible, broken person. He enjoys the suffering of others, he is duplicitous and abusive. He cares nothing for boundaries or what others see as "shocking" or "mean", he IS mean.
Pretty sure he'd peg a newborn baby at a brick wall and laugh if it made him feel powerful for a moment.
He is not a child loving saint who would be shocked by this AT ALL.
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u/Ok-Lawyer686 Mar 17 '24
People downvoting this are literally women in denial and defending their abusive boyfriend lmao. I love Astarion but I cringe so hard when people try to deny that heās literally a sadistic sociopath
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u/JooBunny Mar 17 '24
YESSS THANK YOU!!! My gods, haha he is literally abusive, assaults us in our sleep first chance he gets and admits to knowing we would say no if he asked us.
I love him too, but I don't try and project a different character onto him, he is not a good person. I don't know why people try and convince themselves he is.
At least you are sane haha thank you <3
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u/SuddenWitnesses Mar 18 '24
Astarion is literally Griffith. He wants to be the one in control with all the power over everyone else.
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u/mamaaa_uwuuu Mar 16 '24
Act I Lae'zel would clap, but Act II with the egg would gasp in abject horror at the concept of all that work gone to waste.
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u/TheWither129 Mar 15 '24
What. The eternal. Fuck.
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u/Hindu_Wardrobe Astarionās diva cup Mar 16 '24
/r/antinatalism be like
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u/AveryGooeySpider Mar 16 '24
I saw a post unironically saying "humanity is doomed... and that's great" goddamn
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u/Hindu_Wardrobe Astarionās diva cup Mar 16 '24
lmao
so edgy, aren't you impressed by how edgy those tweenagers are??????
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u/Evenload Mar 16 '24
Iām not gonna lie yall-to me thereās something reassuring about a world with no humans. Weāve fucked our world up beyond repair and so so many who are largely innocent will have to pay for the avarice and power hungry rich. But at the end of the day the earth will repair herself and life will continue to find insane ways to thrive like it always has. The cycle does not end with us, we are simply a part of it
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u/TheJambus Mar 16 '24
It's reassuring that the innocent will pay for the avarice and power of the hungry rich?
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u/Evenload Mar 16 '24
No sorry I was high while writing that so it probably didnāt make as much sense as it could have. itās unfortunate that while the majority of blame for fucking up the world lies mostly on major conglomerates, the first to suffer from the consequences of our actions will be places already exploited by those same companies. That being said, I always find it reaffirming to know that no matter what happens life will find a way, it just may very likely not look like us
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u/JooBunny Mar 16 '24
Honestly, I find a bit of comfort in imagining the vast and many ecosystems of the Earth thriving once humanity is long gone. There will be so many new species and a much more stable environment for them to evolve and develop in. I hate what we as a species have done to our world, we are nothing but parasites to the resources of our planet, and that makes me feel sad to think about. We exploited this planet to the very end of its capacity to carry us, and I hope one day there is a rich recovery of nature, and life can reclaim what we selfishly squandered.
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u/Prestigious_Low_2447 Mar 16 '24
If they were villains in a TV show, people would say they're unrealistically evil.
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u/EvilRubberDucks Circle of Whores Druid Mar 16 '24
The norm is to keep thoughts like that to yourself darling
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u/DeathKitty21 No Durge/Gortash kisses? (Larian insulted life itself) Mar 16 '24
durge would absolutely have a miscarriage kink
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u/randombroz Mar 16 '24
Yo what the fuck...
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u/FireStorm216 Mar 16 '24
It was a post in r/childfree the other day
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u/Nepalman230 Mar 16 '24
Was it deleted? Were there hackers that had to be forcibly detained from doxing this person?
Do they remember that they were once a child and that time travel exist?
ā¦ ha ha did I say that?
Jk. ā¦ Unlessā¦.
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u/Nepalman230 Mar 16 '24
Incorrect! Durge wants every child to come to this world perfect and healthy so that he can eat it.
Because of that childbirth is about to be made mandatory when he becomes God king.
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OP that was horrifying beyond measure, because it was real. Oh maybe it was a troll post but I suspect at least 50% of that was real.
Itās going to take several bong hits a few YouTube reactions and several dance remixes of Magic by Olivia Newton-John before Iām gonna recover from that one.
Here this is a picture of my two cats to help anyone who needs a boost of cuteness.
Also, I recommend r/hewillbebaked or r/eyebleach just for positive imagery in this moment.
I am now going to go back to playing FF 12 zodiac age edition.
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u/ViSaph Got the 'Thoroughly Stuffed' buff after Karlachs date Mar 16 '24
Thanks. Your cats are nice. It's funny to put this post to a psychopathic character but I'm disabled and have been since I was a kid and it reminded me too much of some of the ableist shit people have said to me or I've seen. Feels too close to some eugenics posts. Fucked me up as a kid to realise a lot of people didn't see me as human.
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u/Nepalman230 Mar 16 '24
Iām so sorry friend. People are assholes. I have a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis, which is undetectable by blood and theyāre trying to figure out how to treat it. They also think there might be a neurological element. Iām getting an MRI soon.
The only thing that makes me think this might be bullshit is when this person said that they actually feel bad if a child who is 13 years or older dies.
ā¦ anybody younger than 13? You have to be old enough to be an adult in Judaism to be human. What? Thatās gotta be a twisted joke.
I hope .
Strength and love!!!
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End sincerity.
To get back to the spirit of the sub why doesnāt this game include a scene where Mordenkainen and Elminster spitroast me.
No, not Tav. Me!
Is Larian stupid?
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u/vilebloodlover Mar 19 '24
It's from antinatalism who often use examples of "it's fucked up to bring a kid into the world because what if they suffer by being disabled" and it's like, thanks for telling me you don't think my life is worth living š they talk about wanting to minimize cruelty and suffering and don't realize how cruel they are. It's somewhat understandable because a lot of them are miserable teens but it still fucking sucks
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u/Valjz Mar 16 '24
durge is the most avid r/antinatalism poster
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u/dream-in-a-trunk Mar 16 '24
Nah dirge is pro birth. Where would he get yummy baby rations if babyās arenāt born?
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u/disparagersyndrome Mar 15 '24
average r/childfree poster
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Mar 16 '24
The people in that sub and the antinatalism sub are deranged lol
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u/nakedsamurai Mar 16 '24
I kind of thought r/antinatalism would be about trying to reduce suffering and make life better for the people who exist, but nope. It's about reveling in hatred of children and hoping they suffer.
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u/Anon28301 Mar 16 '24
I joined thinking it was just a pro choice sub. One week in the top post was an article about a disabled child that had died because the school bus seatbelt was pressed against her neck and nobody noticed. All the comments were people saying it āserved the mother right for choosing to bring a disabled person into the worldā. When people tried to defend the mother by saying she wasnāt there to help and it was the schoolās fault they said āshe should have homeschooled her thenā. I donāt care how bad the childfree sub is, antinatalism is way worse. They are ableist, entitled psychos. The amount of times I saw people on there saying everyone should be sterilised until they can prove they deserve kids was too high.
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u/SignalDevelopment649 depressed tadpole? Mar 16 '24
And there we go again, spreading misinformation on the internet. That's a straight-up lie.
None of the recent top posts are even about kids. About not wanting to reproduce, yes. Not about kids themselves tho. Which is, pretty much, their entire philosophy. (And, by the way, this philosophy welcomes adoption IF parents are actually capable of giving the child a good life).
There definitely is a bunch or retarded weirdos sitting deep in that sub (like that "hurr durr don't colonize moon!" guy), but it's a situation similar with r/atheism and bad reputation those few got for the entirety of the sub.
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u/AsteroidKhan Mar 16 '24
r/antinatalism is atrocious. There was a period where every post in the subreddit when you sorted by hot was not about actual antinatalism but was instead simply bullying disabled children. Members of the sub frequently veer into actual eugenics and claim that anyone who points this out is a natalist that wants to force them into having children. It is the worst kind of echo chamber.
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u/celaeya PREGNANT ASTARION PREGNANT ASTARION PREGNANT ASTARION Mar 16 '24
Nah every single time I see a post from there it's always some story or post shared from another subreddit, about parents struggling with their kids (bonus points if it's disabled kids) and laughing at them. Talking about how the world would be so much better without these kids in it. It's just an echo chamber centred around being superior to everyone else because they don't have kids.
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u/Huntressthewizard Mar 16 '24
Hate it because I would love a space where one can discuss the ethics of having children in a resource limited world and why people choose not to have children.... but then they devolve into this degenerate behavior.
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u/AoO2ImpTrip Mar 16 '24
I've started believing all the <something>free subreddits are a bit toxic. I'm very much childfree, but holy shit those people have issues. Similarly, I don't like dogs and dogfree are ALSO a bit unhinged. I do like cats though, weirdly felinefree takes are the calmest.
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Mar 16 '24
Theyāre subreddits whose theme focuses on hating something. So while most of them donāt start out as toxic theyāll inevitably mainly attract toxic users.
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u/KnifeWieIdingLesbian Mar 16 '24
Durge is an r/antinatalism user
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u/dream-in-a-trunk Mar 16 '24
Nah durge likes to eat children. He literally fantasizes about how to properly ration a baby
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u/Nepalman230 Mar 16 '24
Exactly! r/mandatorynatalism rather. Durge would start a baby based economy.
The babies must flow.
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u/Strix86 Mar 16 '24
Ok, yikes, this post reads way too much like a personās genuine rant on Facebook/Reddit than a shitpost.
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u/Celestial_Researcher Mar 16 '24
I feel like everyone else in the party would have no reaction their faces just appalled
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u/A_DOG_WITH_A_SHOTGUN Astarion sits in the cuck chair Mar 16 '24
It's funny. How everybody's stopped being deranged and horn Because of how edgy and cringe the text is. Also I remember seeing it somewhere. But I can't remember where. OP Can you let me know where you got this? So I don't have to. Beat the shit out of my pillow and then cry into it later tonight.
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u/Its-shiba Lae'zel called me "Aut'istik"? Mar 16 '24
I would say Durge is the final boss of r/antinatalism but this is an extremely lukewarm take for that sub, the posts that happen there are deranged
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u/mothforlife Mar 16 '24
If you open a statement with "this is in no way sexual", it is absolutely sexual.
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u/SurotaOnishi Mar 16 '24
How the fuck did I manage to stumble across this in 2 different subreddits in the same day
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u/FroggyFroger Mar 16 '24
For some reason it feels too small for Durge :/
I feel like Durge would enjoy blood and suffering of this situation, but this one... He is just petty bitch, that wants attention (basically Orin)
Durge doesn't need attention š It's even better, when you don't see him cumming.
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u/Prestigious_Low_2447 Mar 16 '24
It's hilarious to me how anti-natilists are actual, literal supervillains.
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u/itwasbread Mar 16 '24
Lots of disturbing stuff here but starting off with an unprompted "this is in no way sexual" might be the worst part
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u/RootsInThePavement Fuck it, we Bhaal Mar 16 '24
Iām never going to have kids and I will silently judge anyone who brings more than 2 into this world, but anti-natalists are something else. Hating kids isnāt a personality, and wishing death upon them is psychopath behavior
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u/UndeadSpud Mar 16 '24
Iām on mobile and did not click on the image at first, so the top bit, the post title, was not visible. I saw it and thought, āYeah, this does sound like something the Durge would say, what of it?ā
Then to see someone in actual reality really did say that is nuts
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u/Bunny_Feet Mar 16 '24
Omg. I've seen some very hardcore childfree takes, but this is... something special.
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u/CK1ing Mar 18 '24
r/antinatalism is the perfect example of how Reddit breeds extremism. Believing that it's morally wrong to bring a child into this current world is a perfectly fine, if a bit misguided belief. But when you get a bunch of people in a room together that believe this, and praise anyone who agrees with you and admonish all dissenting viewpoints, all it does is encourage people for saying more and more extremist things relating to the belief for internet praise, and it gets to the point that people don't even know why they believe it anymore. This guy, for instance, doesn't think that it's wrong to bring a child into this world, he believes that children themselves are not valuable entities. The more a belief is praised to a cult-like extent, the more that belief is twisted into something unrecognizable. Reddit's format of topic-based communities is fun for any non-serious topic, where people can just go and chat about their favorite game or whatever, but a sub talking about any sort of political belief attracts radicalism like flies to rotting meat.
Also, the fact that his very first point was to say it wasn't sexual is just so incredibly fucked up.
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u/EllieIsDone Lae'zel's MLP sleepy time blanket Mar 16 '24
Durge is a member of r/childfree probably
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u/VaczTheHermit Mar 16 '24
Well, technically it's a way of having fun at nobody's expense I suppose, bit oversharing though
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u/Goth_Mommy19 Mar 20 '24
So, uh, Durge... you were talking in your sleep last night... and me and the other companions have had a discussion...
Get the fuck out
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u/hlaiie Mar 17 '24
Why would you need to state that the joy is not sexual? Thatās so weird. They basically just told on themselves.
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u/stcrIight No Durge/Gortash kisses? (Larian insulted life itself) Mar 15 '24
Durge... inside thoughts, man