> For people who would otherwise never have a human partner why not let them have an app if it makes them happy?
I want to agree with you but my optimism has rarely reconciled with history itself.
There's a fallacy here: why are we writing off an entire subset of the population as irredeemable? Ugly people find love. Even assholes find love. Weight is not an exception, nor disability.
This is like giving heroin to someone that's depressed. Sure it'll make them happy, but it won't end well.
For something that takes place behind closed doors there's no oversight either, which is a problem enough with rogue therapists (see the Ramona False Memory case). This undermines social cohesion and makes radicalization trivial-- nobody would see it coming at all enough to intervene.
We're talking private reinforcement of ideas like kill-your-parents-and-yourself, or commit-treason-and-sabotage type of suggestions. Nobody knows little Jimmy is jerking it to Israeli propaganda.
I've asked before why there is no hypnosis porn to make people fetishize anything other than feminizing men. There's no "you like natural beauty" hypno, or "you're fine just the way you are" hypno. It's all an ad campaign to specifically drive sales of therapy and hormones. One nation produces 90% of the world's supply; guess who.
All of this to support a commercial endeavor. God help us when this sort of personalized influence is weaponized for military use.
I want to agree with you but my optimism has rarely reconciled with history itself.
There's a fallacy here: why are we writing off an entire subset of the population as irredeemable? Ugly people find love. Even assholes find love. Weight is not an exception, nor disability.
This is like giving heroin to someone that's depressed. Sure it'll make them happy, but it won't end well.
For something that takes place behind closed doors there's no oversight either, which is a problem enough with rogue therapists (see the Ramona False Memory case). This undermines social cohesion and makes radicalization trivial-- nobody would see it coming at all enough to intervene.
We're talking private reinforcement of ideas like kill-your-parents-and-yourself, or commit-treason-and-sabotage type of suggestions. Nobody knows little Jimmy is jerking it to Israeli propaganda.
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/pornography-transgende...
I've asked before why there is no hypnosis porn to make people fetishize anything other than feminizing men. There's no "you like natural beauty" hypno, or "you're fine just the way you are" hypno. It's all an ad campaign to specifically drive sales of therapy and hormones. One nation produces 90% of the world's supply; guess who.
All of this to support a commercial endeavor. God help us when this sort of personalized influence is weaponized for military use.