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[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

is born female in Pakistan :??

North Korean: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[-] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

If I take a week off of work in America I will lose everything I own and be homeless and die....

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Isn't that what freedom is all about? The choice of either slaving away or starving?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 36 points 7 months ago

Tell that to my immune system.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

I do? So I can quit my shitty soul crushing job and everything will just be fine then?

[-] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 7 months ago

Yes, because there are definitely more options than waste your years trapped in wage slavery. ๐Ÿ™„

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 24 points 7 months ago

To give OP a boon, my friend's mother had a plaque with a saying along the lines of "I was born against my will and I will die against my will. So please let me at least live like I want to."

I think that's a good philosophy to approach your own life and the people you encounter.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm going to live like a billionaire... I am going to live like a billionaire.

Mate, you have so very little actual free-will. There's still a debate if you even have free-will at all. If it's even a thing or just a concept we came up with.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 7 months ago

Well, at least scientists have identified the hormone that is responsible for the "this was totally my own idea" feeling.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Link? That sounds really cool.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 7 months ago

Can't find it right now. If I recall correctly they could measure the "decision" happening before the action was performed.

Or maybe those are two separate studies.

[-] dog@suppo.fi 16 points 7 months ago

Sure you do buddy.

Euthanasia is totally legal and not shunned upon everywhere in the world.

[-] exanime@lemmy.today 14 points 7 months ago
[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Hmm. I don't know about that. Maybe certain very rich people have more freedom regarding the way they can live. I just have to do 9-5, no questions asked.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

And therefore have the right to end it whenever I feel like doing so.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

I mean there are lots of deadly poisonous plants, but legally killing yourself is hard as fuck.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

This is me trying to explain the difference between "fault" and "responsibility"

[-] Kolli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Posting this quote here is pearls to a swine.

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