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What is your favorite obscure old hot take to ever pop up on this site? For @Civility purposes, nothing from active users, please. Also "power dynamics" isn't obscure. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

PPB is ableist because the user has IBS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

That's a wild one. I'm impressed, brief as it is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I don't like this being laughed at because the user was being sincere. Maybe it wasn't taken the way they wanted it to be, but it I do remember them saying it wasn't IBS specifically and something different. Probably came from a moment of personal frustration and wasn't made to be a big deal either (as it was completely dropped after the reaction)