@mono >Africans, I believe, may generally lack the concepts of subjunctivity and counterfactuality. Subjunctivity is conveyed in such statements as, “What would you have done if I hadn’t showed up?” This is contrary to fact because I did show up, and it is now impossible for me not to have shown up. We are asking someone to imagine what he would have done if something that didn’t happen (and now couldn’t happen) had happened. This requires self-consciousness, and I have already described blacks’ possible deficiency in this respect. It is obvious that animals, for example, cannot think counterfactually, because of their complete lack of self-awareness.
>When someone I know tried to persuade his African workers to contribute to a health insurance policy, they asked “What’s it for?” “Well, if you have an accident, it would pay for the hospital.” Their response was immediate: “But boss, we didn’t have an accident!” “Yes, but what if you did?” Reply? “We didn’t have an accident!” End of story.
@Moon@sloppyhog hmm,,, things are not so simple as that if looking "actual harm" rather than legal. production of such pictures tends to involve violations of trust, coercion, maybe physical abuse, but anonymised there's argument "it's not hurting anyone now" could be made. and a gun is a risk, deadly implement that's lighter and easier to manipulate and cause damage with than other such, like cars etc, making it greater risk for children etc. but pictures could also have risk of it becomes deanonymised or encountered by the picture subject somehow, which can hurt that person, and there's question of if obsessing over such pictures leads to future abuse risk as well etc. so dunno