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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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Adulting (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

and you’re not hurting anyone else in doing so

Evaluating this condition across all levels of your community is almost impossible, from the individual level up to a global level. It can also be evaluated across time. The total sum effects of actions (and inactions) are incalculable.

Of course, even if it was calculable its not objective because "hurting or harm" is are subjective terms. I wasn't trying to start a treatise on the validity of Kantianism vs Bentham utilitarianism.

The best we can do as adults is adopt a philosophy of "least harm" which is subjective to the actor, and then act in accordance with that philosophy. We alter our philosophies based upon experience and additional information. The additive nature could mean on our deathbed we discover we were the hero, the villain, or a pure non-entitity. Welcome to the ambiguity of adulthood. Do your best, however you define that.