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I saw this infuriating meme again in 2024 so I will put down a response in case anybody will see this late reply. My answer would be no, at least probably not under the assumption of an evil guy in relation to capital exploitation and consequent violence. Of course ontology means different thing across different areas of study, so if you're speaking theologically then sure idk whatever. But when talking a aspects of social science: society, class, race, or things in relation to being in those things like capital or when people say "black and brown bodies" (a term often butchered) then you have to, bare minimum, separate the job of "nestle executive" (relating to class and capital) and the individual. IIRC I think the easiest and common example to approach ontology might be indentured servants vs slavery in the Caribbeans during the slave trade. Despite these 2 classes being treated similarly in labour on the surface, the important aspect of their difference is that indentured servant receives some pennies and the slave, none. This minute difference cyclically reinforces and shapes the difference of the slave class, in this case reinforcing+shaping the very big ontological difference of how the slave is (not my words of course) lesser than human (this already existed obv, but now another additional reinforcing reality being created), and the indentured servant still human. From a modern perspective we might be tempted to think "then wouldnt they be pretty similar?", but from within that world it would bethat they can only be closer, the difference of that one penny and zero is an infinite, unpassable, boundary. The ontology would be all that encapsulates the essence of being something and in many cases that something might be purposefully related to a physical attribute but it doesn't necessarily have to actually be that attribute itself. For example, again in the caribbean during slave trade. Does being an African mean you are a slave? No, never, absolutely not. But in some point of that slave-trading society, somehow the truth was Yes, absolutely within that world. It might be said that the understanding of ontology is used as a tool to understand and study things while giving proper context to these "truths". A indentured servant or a slave isn't gonna just stand up and be like "hey I'm free now" out of nowhere at least, as these "truths" are ingrained into everyone and everything in that society. Someone thinking shallowly might say like "isn't that just the same as social construct" or whatever and yes these also fall under the vague definition of social construct. But the focus of this is that because these ideas are "true" within that society, this kind of subliminally (probably not the best term to describe but im tired) influences the production of knowledge, of how people understand and, in some ways, literally see the world and consequentially everything that they do as well. Like when people talk about looking at a chair, but its just a thing that you're deciding whether or not to assign the concept of a chair on without much conscious thought, there's an entire "real" imagined social world that we see in everything. The ontologies lie in that imagined yet real world attached to the physical one. So probably no if you're talking from a social philosophical perspective about the nature of a violent money grubbing individual which I think most people are imagining. For the reason that its just that guy that sucks, maybe even all of them drawn into that position suck, but it's not by some unique and immutable position of social existence the guy inhabits that makes him such a way. is he evil? yes. Is he ontologically evil? no, not necessarily.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

But what if odontologically evil, like vampires and shit?, is that bodyshaming?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Please do not discriminate against the living impaired

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

VTMB vampires: depends on the vampire

Sinners vampires: Must be destroyed immediately, they spread faster than a pandemic and delight in causing pain and misery

What about Buffy vampires?

[–] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

idk how to express this without sounding like a redditor, but that’s some seriously good word play lol my dentist is gonna love it

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

We have these: gold-communist

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Could you add some line breaks?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

I guess it might, but there are plenty of popular copypastas with line breaks, like "I met x at the grocery store" or whatever it's called and also it's just more readable. But it's your art, so do what you feel is right.

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

if we're giving notes, how about cutting off the ifunny watermark and posting ten self-crits for using ifunny?

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

The ifunny watermark elevates the post

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's beyond my ken, I just feel exhausted reading 24-line paragraphs.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

i don't think you're generally meant to read the whole pasta

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always thought that this meme was ironic, that people only used it to represent simplistic black and white thinking about morality that is obviously wrong. But I tend to assume that about a lot of memes and have been proven wrong on that a lot.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's funny how memes have a life of their own - so to speak. People tend to use them without thinking and this can create a "monkey see - monkey do" situation. It's like the word "nonplussed". It means surprised but a typical American usage is the exact opposite. People misunderstood and thought the "non" meant the opposite so in their mind the word means "unsurprised".

I bet the average redditor doesn't really understand the plane with red dots meme but they really think they do.

Survivorship bias

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago