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Morality needs a concept of awfulness as well as awesomeness. In the depths of hell, good things are not an option and therefore not a consideration, but there are still choices to be made.
Gloomiest sentence of 2013 so far. Upvoted.
"Least not-awesome choice" is isomorphic to "most awesome choice".
Curiously, I like everything about your comment but this, it's central point. Indeed, a concept of negative utility is probably useful; but this is not why.
I think that 'awesome' loses a lot of value when you are forced to make the statement "Watching lot of people die was the most awesome choice I had, because any intervention would have added victims without saving anyone."
I propose 'lame' and 'bummer' as antonyms for 'awesome'. Instead of trying to figure out the most awesome of a series of bad options, we can discuss the least lame.
Sucks less sucks less.
What's the adjectival form of suck?
Sucky. As in: "That movie was really sucky."
ETA: It's even in the dictionary!
Sucky. (It's kind of sucky, but oh well.)
Is "suckier" awesomer than "lamer"?
Sounds like an excellent idea.
I'm sigquoting that if you don't mind.
Not that that means anything anymore, but I'm old school that way.
Couldn't resist meming this.
Awesome line. Up goes the vote.
Concur. Upvoted.