The USA didn’t invent the concept of police or government.

The first police were appointed to investigate and punish minor crimes commited agains civilians.

Then why are most “uncivilized” societies have more egalitarian and non-violent than “civilized” ones?

Uncivilized societies engage in violence much more frequently than civilized societies.

That’s the case for individual/personal violence, and also for institutional/mass violence.

Civilized societies are better than uncivilized society in anything they do collectively, be it science, production, or murder.

Since civilized societies are so much better at murdering, the few cases where mass murder does happen are much more significant.

However, such cases remain an exception, as opposed to what is the case for uncivilized societies.

Uncivilized societies may be harmless, but they are certainly not peaceful.

Civilized societies are more powerful, but they yield their power much more carefully.

Well the options aren’t just capitalism and socialism. There’s also worse capitalism. So a normal capitalist system that protects itself does not just prevent socialism, it also prevents worse capitalism.

An example of a system that turned to worse capitalism is Nazi Germany. That’s why today, Germany prevents system change, so as to not again change from normal capitalism to worse capitalism.

I was working with Argon2 hashes, so it was the first thing to come to mind.

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If half of the shit is thrown out every week, less shit will be produced next week.

there are plenty today […] that would take a painless death in a heartbeat even if they aren’t clinically suicidal. Life is that bad for most people.

Most people aren’t suicidal, not even passively. A small minority is passively suicidal (and that minority is very loud on Lemmy and Reddit), but generally humans do enjoy life.

There are no reasons for it that do no begin and end in pure self interest.

Doing something out of self interest does not make it immoral. Creating art out of pure self interest doesn’t make it immoral either.

it would still be a selfish act to force a being into existence to experience joy as much as it would be to experience sorrow.

Forcing a being to exist is no more selfish than forcing a being not to exist.

Abortion is almost always the moral choice.

Are you implying context for this statement or do you really believe that creating new life is (almost always) immoral?

The vast majority of humans do find love.

Human lives are only valuable if they serve a purpose

Especially now with Blizzard moving their games back to Steam, running them on Linux doesn’t even require tinkering anymore.

Basically you use them at points where you’d usually put a period, but you don’t want to add as much of a pause.

ETA:

For example

My wife said she would like tea; coffee would have been my choice.

could also be written as

My wife said she would like tea. Coffee would have been my choice.

but it wouldn’t sound as nice.

normalizing child abuse

You seem like a very relaxed person

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I assumed that it was given that I exclude the example (with the implication of it not usually being the case for people considering suicide).

no social life

I struggle to imagine a scenario where you actually have no chance of rebuilding a social life. What are you, a lighthouse keeper living far from any city and getting your groceries airdropped?

You may not be in a situation where rebuilding a social life is trivial, but 50 years is enough time to learn how to find friends even in sub-optimal situations (e.g. at a grocery store). It is enough time to weed through different people until you find some that match you.

Even looking at anecdotes (“We met on WoW”)

You seem to be focusing your points on the lonelyness crisis, which is a real issue. Spending a decade without a social life is terrible, and I understand why someone who arrives at this point may consider their future to be hopeless.

But while it may be understandable that a person considers suicide in this situation, it is not a rational (as in: long-term optimal) decision. A person in this situation may be exhausted, may be at or past a breaking point where they do no longer find the strength to keep on trying, and make the decision to commit suicide.

This decision derives from a temporary, emotionally charged state. (I consider fatique an emotion here.)

The rational (as in: long-term optimal) decision would be to keep trying. To keep going on until it just so happens that you exchange a few words with a stranger. Until it just so happens that you get to build foundational social skills, easing the possibility to approach others. Until it just so happens that you get an opportunity to talk to someone, and get to know them. Or maybe one day, out of a wind of confidence (or desperation) you approach just the right person. Or maybe that person approaches you. Or maybe you take to more unusual manners of getting to know people, that you find to work for you.

And once you found a start, you can build off it. You can extend your social circle, find a partner, start a family, and live happily ever after.

Quit the bs, I’ve been trying for a decade and it doesn’t work

You have many years to go, and once you find a ledge to stand on, they will all be worth it.

There is no “rational” reasoning that leads to the conclusion that you’ll never be happy (unless you’re in an actively harmful situation, such as a torture prison or with an extreme chronic disease).

You cannot tell whether you’ll be happy, you cannot know who you’ll be ten years in the future.

Claiming that you won’t ever be happy simply because you haven’t been happy so far is short sighted and narrow minded.

Suicide is always unreasonable.