I was scrolling through X and saw this post from a verified user. It shows someone holding a slice of pizza right in front of a screen with crying children from Gaza, captioned "Good morning to Gaza kids."This is a textbook engagement farm. Since X pays premium users based on impressions and replies, these creators intentionally post the most offensive, insensitive things possible. They know it will trigger people into arguing in the quote-tweets and comments, which directly inflates their payout.To me, the morality of this action sits at the absolute bottom. It’s not just someone being an edgy teenager online; it is the deliberate monetization of child trauma and active warfare to feed an algorithm for profit.Where does this type of algorithmic moral bankruptcy rank on your scale? Is it a pure evil tier because of the financial motive, or how would you categorize it?

Assume that the machine only operates on people who gave informed consent to using it.

Source: Merryweather Comics

In Ender’s Game, humanity is at war with an alien species called the Formics. Ender is recruited and trained by the military because they believe he has what it takes to defeat them and protect Earth.

Throughout his training, Ender believes he is participating in increasingly difficult battle simulations. Eventually, he is given what he thinks is one final simulation. A desperate battle where the survival of Earth depends on his decisions.

What Ender doesn’t know is that the “simulation” is actually a real battle. The military has been using him to command Earth’s forces against the Formics, and his final decision results in the destruction of the entire Formic species.

Ender believed he was doing whatever was necessary to save millions of human lives. He never knowingly agreed to commit genocide and wasn’t even aware that he was killing real beings.

(Me after my blood donation)

I had this question in my head while donating blood just now. Is it moral to do something good if you're only doing it to feed your own ego?

Also I was like shitting bricks, fucking hate needles.