applebusch (she/her)

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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • ive kinda felt guilt and shame about it for a long time, but sex has been a pretty consistent special interest of mine. ive been leaning into it unapologetically lately and have been happy to find people who arent put off by how into it i am, and even value my enthusiasm. its not nerdy in the traditional sense but theres so much to learn and improve at, and every partner has new and interesting depths to explore, so to speak. i even get to learn new things about myself in the process.













  • vaccines are great and awesome and i wish there were more and i could get them. no one is being forced against their will to get vaccinated. people who refuse for nonmedical reasons are a danger to others, directly, not in some hypothetical society might be better off way. just like someone else who brought up smoking which also harms others directly. they should be barred from certain places for not getting them yeah. that doesnt violate their bodily autonomy. they can choose not to they just wont be able to do certain things or go certain places because they are a danger to others. you can choose to smoke you just wont be allowed to do it where you will hurt people.


  • this is such a false equivalence argument its painful. cigarette smoke materially harms others directly. subjecting someone to your cigarette smoke violates their bodily autonomy unless they consent to breathe your second hand smoke and take on the associated harms. someone committing suicide doesnt harm anyone directly. youre saying them dying is bad for the people in their life because they support them so they should be pressured to stay alive and be actively prevented from dying so they can continue to provide benefit to others.

    thats literally the argument pro lifers use against abortion. women revoking their material support of their unborn child in most cases leads to its death, so they argue women should be forced to carry it to term, violating their bodily autonomy. youre arguing the same thing for people who want to die. their life benefits others who may die or be worse off without them so they should be compelled to continue existing against their will.

    fuck that. anyone who argues that position is on the slippery slope to supporting slavery. you dont get to sacrifice peoples bodily autonomy because it might be good for fucking society. youre fucking wrong and nothing you can say will convince me such a callous position is right. people have the right to die if they choose to, and people like you make exercising that right worse for everyone.


  • applebusch (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneconsent rule
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    thats a pretty naive perspective that ignores the reality of suicide. people are going to do it anyway, whatever you or anyone else thinks. removing options for people in that situation just worsens the harm to people around them and society as a whole, because no one is prepared and they can only do it in an inconvenient place/way. its always a surprise that people have to deal with suddenly, rather than something with established procedures and norms. your position is basically “they shouldnt because its hard messy so we’ll make it really hard and messy to disuade them”. its a circular argument that serves no one.


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    another example of capitalism/society causing harm and people ascribing that harm to the response rather than the system that pushed people to be desperate enough to be killed for money. but you know that already fucking happens. life insurance fraud is a thing. people take out huge life insurance plans then go find a way to die that looks like an accident to support someone else. but sure allowing people to consent to die would be the real problem.