#ethics of the real

[grandpasessions]

Let us take as a starting point Lacan's famous statement according to which desire is (always) the desire of the Other. It is important to bear in mind that this phrase does not exclude the ethical maxim: ' do not give up on your desire '. In other words, the dimension of the Other does not exclude the authenticity of the subject's desire. But how is this possible?

Only if we admit that the desire of the Other does not present itself in the form of an answer or a commandment ('1 want this or that!'), but - as Lacan points out - in the form of a question or an enigma, comparable to the one that the Sphinx posed to Oedipus.

The subject will reply and, replying in one way or another, he will write the destiny of his desire. The statement 'desire is the desire of the Other' postulates the Other as the site where the question of desire originally emerges. The point is not that the desire of the Other exists somewhere else, with the subject knowing what it is and making it the model of his own desire.

Exactly the same thing can be said about the Kantian moral law. The subject does not know what the law wants. It is at this point that we can situate a convergence or an encounter between Kant and Lacan. ' The law is a law of the unknown' is the fundamental proposition of any ethics worthy of the name.

Ethics of the Real A. Zupancic

#ethics of the real #zupancic #kant #lacan #hegel #zizek #theory #theology #universal law #desire #freud

[stuckinapril]

don't stress about that opportunity that fell through or that friend you lost or that thing you really want to happen but isn't. as long as you keep your chin up and try try try again, better things will replace your losses. i'm looking at my life rn and actually marveling at how every single thing i stressed about, whether it be an opportunity or a person, got supplanted w another thing that is so much better. it really is true that loss makes space for better things. these days i don't get sad when something doesn't work out. i get excited that i'm now open to so many other possibilities out there, so long as i actively seek them. you never lack. you just transition.

#operating from an abundance mindset is changing my life truly #i used to fight to convince myself of it but now that i see it happening in real time? it's so true and i'm soothed by it #this isn't even coming from a manifestation or religious angle bc i'm neither of those things #i just believe that a good attitude and strong work ethic can get you places if you don't let failure stop you #and don't allow the noise (other people's opinions) to weigh you down #text

[clonerightsagenda]

I have absolutely no opinions on the Barbie movie but since I am already seeing discourse about it all over my dash I am begging people once again to get involved in some kind of local activism so they will stop thinking what movies you watch is a hardhitting form of praxis

#i'm not saying it's an entirely neutral act #and I get this is the Media Consumption site so people are going to focus on the ethics of media consumption #but I scroll past some of these and go. cool. do you want to invest some time helping real people in your community now #why this

[andhumanslovedstories]

Looking for a fun activity to do this week? I recommend sitting your loved ones down and having the uncomfortable but necessary discussion where everyone makes sure everyone knows exactly what life extending measures people would and would not want so that so that in the case anyone is in the hospital needing these extreme interventions in order to keep living, you don’t make a hard situation all the more difficult by having to guess what bad option is the one your loved one would want. I also recommend bowling. If you’re brave enough, these two essential activities can and should be combined

#nursing tag #a real night for the ole ethics committee over here unfortunately

[amberultramarine]

the dunmeshi gang heading down to get falin while zagreus is on his way out

#art #fan art #digital art #my art #hades game #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #is it ethical to eat anything in the underworld?? they're all souls of real people vs just being monsters/animals #hell if they know #zagreus: huh. how was asterius & theseus? don't think they would've just let you guys down here. wait gods you didn't EAT asterius did you #laios: oh nah marcille wouldn't let us. also they were pretty nice at least we had a conversation before they tried to kill us

[ryan-sometimes]

Being a biochemistry student is so funny because I’ll be staring off into space and look deep in thought but really I’m just thinking about CRISPR. The Roman Empire of every biochem student

#genome editing my beloved #I’ve been thinking way too much about crispr lately #and also zinc finger nucleases #to quote my chemical biology professor ‘the only real limit of gene editing is ethics’ #you’re playing god #you’re engineering a living organism however you want #the power trip of it is absolutely insane

[honey-marrow]

tea ef 2

#team fortress 2 #anemoart #sollydemo #demosolly #tf2 solider #tf2 demoman #tf2 heavy #tf2 scout #though very small #tf2 pyro #pyro being ceo of a company is not talked enough about #what was their thought process thorugh it all #furthermore how??? #anyway pyro should be the president #the tf2 hype is back and tbh im ashamed i havent drawn the mercs sooner ive been so infatuated by the game again #its like eating chocolate for the first time again #ANYWAY.. demosolly is real and ethical

[kanrix]

Do you have any tips on drawing stuff like gore and blood and…things like that-? :’)

I don't think I'll be able to give you much advice besides telling you to look at those drawn "anatomy guides" stuff, or look at other artist's gore art

#sure. you could go look at real photos. but I'm not sure that's very ethical/moral or whatever #so my main advice is look at other artist's gore art and you'll eventually get something you like #also remember to draw the fat. the yellow stuff #ask #anonymous #gore #i like picking a dark red #for the blood #not too dark but dark

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship' #it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

[icebluecyanide]

I saw people talking about that scene where Yassen shot Max as a huge betrayal of Alex and it's kinda funny to me like yeah he involved Alex in a murder but also I cannot emphasise enough that Alex decided to join a criminal organisation. People have been telling him he'll need to kill for days now, Alex has watched them kill multiple people already, I get that it sucks for him but you cannot team up with a known killer and be that shocked when actually his secret extra mission was to kill

#alex rider spoilers #alex rider #yassen gregorovich #alex x yassen #alex rider tv #like hot take i guess but actually i don't think he lied to alex when alex asked him about why he was coming #he just avoided the question and said something else that's true (and is part of his underlying reason for coming) #he already told alex he wouldn't just tell him everything like mrs jones might #it's the way yassen has been working for a decade and a half. you get told the essentials and don't ask questions #not answering alex's questions and holding back info/not sharing all the details of yassen's part of the mission is not the same as lying #i mean i guess the real issue here is that alex does not want to kill or be involved in a murder #which is not something yassen and scorpia have ethical concerns about ashdflhs #and is something they have basically told him he'll need to get over already #once again i cannot stress enough that alex is literally surrounded by known killers and teamed up with them

[siren-crown]

SSSniperwolf really doxxed Jacksfilms because he kept parodying her react content to prove how it is theft/ notify the creators they were stolen from/ shame her out of it.

And then she says she wants a restraining order.

If YouTube doesn't reprimand her in a serious way then they are showing how much they value profit over ethics.

I wonder if Jack will pursue legal action since doxxing is a crime...

Updates below the cut.

Update 1:

YouTube hasn't done or said anything about the situation.

Jack addressed this in a recent video and called for YouTube to deplatform her.

SSSniperwolf mocks the doxxing on her Instagram.

Update 2:

G Fuel stopped the page where you could buy their SSSniperwolf inspired product but no official statement on it.

Videos are resurfacing of SSSniperwolf's past like transphobia and racism. The main one getting attention is where she asked kids to twerk for her.

Update 3:

Instead of punishing SSSniperWolf YouTube seems to be changing their policies to accommodate her doxxing. They will not be punishing creators for off-platform actions.

Sully G showed this in this tweet and his video

Update 4:

After a week, YouTube has finally issued a response. SSSniperwolf will be receiving a temporary monetization suspension. No mention of how long this suspension will last.

SSSniperwolf also issued an apology.

Pretty suspicious how both came out out around the time.

Both of these are pretty shitty and the YouTube community as a whole does not seem to be accepting her apology and disapprove of YouTubes punishment as it is too light.

#listen #we all know youtube values profit over ethics #but they try not to let you know that #so if they don't punish sniperwolf in any *real* way then they are exposing themselves #jacksfilms #sssniperwolf #youtube #youtube drama #(it's more than drama at this point but) #mine #text post

[philosophybits]

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life

#philosophy #quotes #Mary Wollstonecraft #Original Stories from Real Life #politeness #morality #ethics

[lucky-clover-gazette]

something something commodification of adolescent nostalgia packaging the timeless joy of self-insert fictional escapism into a soulless $60 product

#in my day we had to imagine and draw and write our unique fantasy lives at hogwarts #and for me it was a formative creative experience #there are many more glaring and ethically unacceptable things about the game but it has always conceptually bothered me #a harry potter rpg? bestie fans have been roleplaying their hogwartsonas since the books came out #their creativity is the real magic #hogwarts legacy

[aimasup]

sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme

^^^ possibly insufficiently educated

#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way #the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases #the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill #the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour #gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky #the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred #the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset. #do you think the ai wants itself #if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys #but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that #my post #personal stuff #thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~ #(￣▽￣)~* #when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about #there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo #the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment #and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms #the real ones went extinct ages ago #when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were #honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating #but I still think about it once in a while

[bleaksqueak]

"How do you stick with one project for so long without abandoning it" "How do you just sit down and work" "How do you make yourself keep working on a comic" "How do you draw and write when there's so many games to play instead--" The answer to these questions is always "I really don't think you understand the degree of hyperfixation I have for these characters." "But how do you keep the same hyperfixation?? Mine only lasts a month or two--" I was obsessed with a single manga from the time I was 15 years old until... Wait, still obsessed, but I think the last time I did fanart for it was two or three years ago now. (My friends know not to accidentally trip the wire and set off a gushing volcano of love on the topic of said manga. I will info dump with the fist of a very neurodivergent god.)

#I get asked these questions a lot #from friends or from peeps on the internet #and i'm over here like.... i could choose to be embarassed abt how obsessed I am with my own chars #but it's so much more fun to have zero shame #there's a real discussion to be had about “work ethic” when it comes to art work and creative work that would be a whole other can of worms #but that's a blather for another time

[tomwambsgans]

tomgreg is not "i could fix him" nor "i could make him worse" but "i could make him feel like a real person." from both ends.

#tomgreg #there is genuine incompleteness on either end without each other #i'm thinking nrpi and the mutual obsession and being (successfully) singularly inclined toward monetary success #EXCEPT in regards to each other #greg having only the most naive aspirations until he meets tom #tom having an essentially directionless desire to be a caretaker until he meets greg #i'm thinking of that one rebvilla tg art with the caption #'doderick fell from the fantasy doggy land and became a real boy in the arms of a guy named tom' #i'm thinking of how the last time greg smokes weed onscreen has him throw it away when tom shows up #how he first does coke. an upper. onscreen directly as tom shows up #tom wakes him up and guides him #greg gives him someone to guide #they're both sponges that soak each other up bc they were sorely missing something #the ethics of their behavior are besides the point #the point is that they cease to be performative about it. tom gets less conservative greg gets less liberal #bc both were masks that weren't necessarily real #'don't be an asshole greg you don't have PRINCIPLES' <- tom accurately calling greg out for being fake #i'm thinking we don't change minds. maybe we do change minds. #once again whether it's in the direction of being 'good' or 'bad' could not be FURTHER from the point #bc the human condition does not condern those things. LOVE does not concern those things. #they just push each other in the direction of being complete people. of being fucking real #mine