i think i hit the perfect metaphor, a least for one specific argument ive come across:

fipindustries: > nazrintouhouinegg: > >> fipindustries: >> >>> i think i hit the perfect metaphor, a least for one specific argument ive come across: >>> >>> being an illustrator/animator who works in traditional medium and is not against AI art is like being a mother who is not against abortion. >>> >>> artists will breathlessly talk to you about how the struggle is the entire point, how the process is what gives it all meaning, how creating things with your own hands is what gives life purpose, and how by not doing that you are robbing yourself of the greatest joy you could experience in life. how you are basically wasting your humanity and ruining your sould by not doing this. and i find it just as sickening as when i hear pro life people talk about the gift/duty of having children. and of course they will burden you with the same ammount of chastizing and moral condemnation of you actually choose to abort/use AI. >>> >>> and like, i get it, i do experience all that with my art. making art with my hands IS my greatest joy and the thing that has given my life purpose, is the thing that gets me out of bed every morning and what saved my life in more than one ocassion. >>> >>> but much like a mother who loves her babies and whose children are her greatest joy i would never ever want to force it on someone who doesnt want it for themselves. i would be miserably tinyminded if i insisted everyone has to follow my life choices. it doesnt matter how much meaning it gives me i understand that not everyone wants to be pregnant and give birth for it, much in the same way not everyone wants to learn how to draw. some people can adopt or just be the fun aunt to someone elses child. or maye they dont want to have children at all. and some people can just comission or use AI. >>> >>> children/manual art are lifes greatest joys but also not something that should be demanded out of people. >> >> Okay but nobody is forcing anyone to make art. You very much can not participate in that if it’s not something you enjoy the process of, and there’s no pressure by society to force women to Make Art unlike the patriarchal demand for reproduction. > > look nobody is “forcing” anyone but the rethoric that presents it as a moral imperative does feel kind of cohercive. > > “disability is no excuse” “grab a pencil” “just learned how to do art yourself instead of killing the planet” “grab a pencil” “if a quadraplegic can do it so do you” “grab a fucking pencil” “youre a pethetic soulles loser if you do this” > > doesnt sound like the most “live and let live” attitude in the world