before i made an account, i reached out to the chief admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com

i was recently banned during a discussion on the validity of a claim regarding the consensus about the safety of a vegan diet:

and, if you bother to go find that discussion, you’ll find that, in fact, my interlocutor did become incivil. i did report that. and somehow, my discussion and the subsequent report were the basis of a ban.

it was less than 2 hours. it’s almost not worth discussing.

but given my pre-application discussion, i felt strongly that my conduct is within the bounds of the acceptable use of the instance. so if my conduct is not within the acceptable use, that means i basically cant use my account(s) as i planned and under the terms which i agreed.

db0 has said he doesn’t want to be the benevolent dictator for life, and has specifically both recused himself from ruling on my conduct and encouraged me to post here and in [email protected] (though i’m still holding off on that for now).

so, did i deserve it? power tripping bastard? what do you think?

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    Survival instincts are incredibly well documented and proven beyond a doubt, you are completely wrong.

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      if you can’t provide any proof that non-human animals understand personal mortality, this is just handwaving.

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        This is the same as saying that we can’t say animals want to avoid pain unless we can prove that they’re capable of conceptualizing pain in the abstract, it’s spurious bullshit.