alt Hacker NewsParrot “user-agency” all you want. We’ve seen what outsourcing solutions to “user-agency” does.
Over half the population lacks the self stewardship to not eat themselves into being a fat pig. If “user-agency” was any sort of solution, I wouldn’t be paying for the negative externalities of all you fat fucks.
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neuropacabra • today at 6:48 PM
Agree, self agency or not, people are depressed and loosing critical thunking because all of it is designed as a slot machines.
Der_Einzige • today at 7:30 PM
I’d unironically mandate taking GLP-1s for those who are significantly overweight as a precondition for getting on Medicaid, Medicare, and even private insurance. It’s time society takes a real stand against hambeasts.
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To piggyback[1], agency discussion are orthogonal to affecting outcomes.
Shifting responsibility typically justifies outcomes rather than making meaningful change. It resolves the cognitive dissonance between a negative outcome and inaction.
If one is actually interested in improving the negative result, it doesn't matter what their personal relation to the cause is. The process is simple: make meaningful change to to the system that causally proceeds the outcome.
In your example of obesity, personal responsibility is meaningless if one's goal is to decrease it.
Same with the negative effects of social media. If you care about the consequences, personal responsibility's only effect is to make one ok with inaction.
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