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liwia123456789 · 17 hours
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Molly - Really Loves Impulsive Road Bookings Then Sight Seeing Original Cruise Destinations.
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twitterexile · 5 months
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John Oliver two years ago is still relevant today!
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thefloralmenace · 3 months
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I have a political thought experiment that I would like to share with you all that I call "Persuading the serial killer," which is really just about how you'd persuade someone who exists outside of your moral framework.
This is inspired by the fact that I watch too much true crime, but the thought experiment goes like this: If you were faced with a serial killer trying to kill you or someone else, how would you convince them not to? Serial killers do not conform to common morals like "killing is wrong," so arguing "You shouldn't kill me because killing is immoral!" is not going to help you. They don't recognize your moral system as real or valuable, so you cannot use it to persuade them. I, personally, would argue like so: "I have a very regular schedule, and people have already noticed that I'm missing. My mother and I talk almost constantly. She alone is probably already panicking that I'm gone and has called the police. I also have serious medical issues on record, so they won't wait the regular 24 hrs to start searching for me. You have a chance to get away now, but not if you spend time murdering me and hiding my body." Straight practical reasons why doing what they want to do will bring about something they absolutely don't want, i.e. if you waste time on murdering me, a high-priorty missing person, you'll get caught and never kill again.
The way this applies to politics is that you're gonna encounter people who do not completely overlap with your morals - probably not serial killers though. Like most Republicans and most Democrats would agree that unprovoked homicide is wrong and bad. No one is trying to pass a bill to get murder blanket-legalized. But obviously, conservatives have different moral views on things like abortion.
You cannot argue with a conservative that abortion isn't wrong. Your opinion that life does not begin at conception or that the right to choose should be in the pregnant person's hands no matter what exists outside of their moral framework just like "murder is wrong" exists outside the moral framework of a serial killer. So if I'm trying to argue against abortion legislation with someone I know is anti-abortion, I argue that abortion laws don't reduce abortions or abortion-related deaths. That the real way to reduce abortions is to make birth control over-the-counter and available to teenagers without parental permission like in the U.K. That if they think that is bad because it "promotes" premarital sex, they need to choose which is worse to them: teenagers having sex or abortions happening because teenagers are still going to have sex. That more support networks for pregnant people who want to keep the pregnancy but worry about their ability to financially support the child would do more good, and that there are several run by churches (but not enough, perhaps they should start one at their church)! That anti-abortion organizations in Europe who crusade against abortion in these ways are more successful at reducing abortion than any country with laws on the books to stop it.
You can apply this with a lot of things, but in short, when arguing with someone with different political views or morals that are mutually exclusive with yours, it's a bad bet to appeal to "but that's wrong! but that's bad! but that's immoral!" Jump straight to the practicalities, i.e. "That won't get you what you want, and here's why," not "You shouldn't want this." This won't always work (ex: you might run through all those abortion arguments, not satisfy the conservative you're arguing with, and in the process figure out that they really just want to legally punish people for premarital sex and don't actually care about abortion). However, leaving your morals out of an argument is your best bet at getting through to another person who may not share them.
*Updated to remove use of the term "psychopath" because I'm told that's an outdated concept.
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eldritchbauble · 2 months
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Low empathy and apathetic folks are cool and aren't bad people for not caring about things in the same way as others. I can't stress enough how much someone can't force themselves to care emotionally/deeply about things if their brain isn't making that connection. You can maybe think your way into rationalizing why you should "care" or otherwise do the right thing but if you don't feel it that's not your fault.
If you can only care about things intellectually or from a distance, or frankly not at all, that's ok.
It's your actions that matter. Not the internal factors you don't have control over.
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altf4d3lete · 25 days
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So are we gonna talk about how wenclair also makes the most sense in terms of Wednesday’s morals?
Wednesday is shown to be someone who cares greatly about outcasts and about their place in the world. She nearly sacrifices herself to fight Joseph Crackstone and save the school, she seems to be upset at the notion of being the reason people at the school are hurt. She’s very clearly enraged by the way Goody is treated and by the outcasts being executed in the barn.
Tyler: Tyler was raised with a very negative view on outcasts, and that was only fueled by Thornhill. He already hated them before Thornhill even came along, and now he hates them even more, to the point of willingly going along with a genocide plot. While we don’t know his true intentions, as of now they don’t make much sense together, given that Wednesday seems to hold the treatment of outcasts fairly high on her list of things she’s upset about.
Xavier: I have a feeling that because Xavier is a psychic and his father is rich/famous, he doesn’t have to worry about things that other outcasts have to worry about. Maybe this is just a writer thing, because I find it weird he wouldn’t be more fired up about it given that he was literally hatecrimed, but when Wednesday opens up to him about what she saw and is clearly upset about it, his response is essentially “so?”. He very clearly doesn’t care about things like the unfair treatment of outcasts unless it directly affects him.
Enid: Then you have Enid. A werewolf. She can’t shift, but she has claws that make it hard for her to visually hide that she’s an outcast. She’s one of the outcasts directly affected by the fact that she can’t hide who she is, one of the most likely to be hunted and/or hatecrimed as well, since werewolves would be viewed as violent creatures (probably why they have the Lupin cages). She’s more similar to Wednesday. Untrusting of normies, likely stemming from a fear of being hatecrimed or the dislike of them knowing that they have hatecrimed people in the past.
In terms of morals and senses of political justice, Enid aligns the most with Wednesday. Of course hate can be unlearned and a sense of justice can be taught, but as the three love interests stand, Enid makes the most sense.
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awetistic-things · 3 months
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being so obsessed with abiding by your morals that you would genuinely rather die than do or say anything that moral opposes ( and being horrified when an allistic jokingly accuses you of doing so, even knowing it’s a joke )
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pratchettquotes · 12 days
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"Anyway, it'll be int'resting to see if it works."
"Yes, but it's wrong," said Granny.
"Not for these parts, it seems," said Nanny.
"Besides," said Magrat virtuously, "it can't be bad if we're doing it. We're the good ones."
"Oh yes, so we is," said Granny, "and there was me forgetting it for a minute there."
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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saturnisscreaming · 6 months
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People who knit
Morals aside if you had a very very long worm that could feel no pain could/would you knit something with it
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Friendly reminder that-
Israel isn't attacking Hamas, it's attacking Palestinians.
This doesn't have anything to do with religion.
There are lgbt+ people in palestine.
There are Jews in palestine and it's not the IDF soldiers.
There are Christians in palestine.
Whenever Hamas releases a former hostage, all of or at least the majority of them say that they had been treated good by the Palestinians.
When the former hostage, Emily, yes that little blonde girl was asked if Hamas taught her to share her food with those needed more, she nodded.
People who support palestine and or are Palestinian but are in other, more "civilised", countries have faced death threats, losing their jobs and even physical violence by people who support Israel.
Jesus was a Palestinian jew.
Holocaust survivors have compared the crimes that Israel is committing to the crimes nazis did back in world War 2.
The reason why no one spoke up about palestine before was due to the fact that many received death threats.
Isreal is allowed to do this because of world War 2, it's fully exploiting the hundreds of deaths of Jews along with the torture they faced.
The Pope is pro-palestine and has stated that what Isreal is doing is terrorism.
Boycotting is easy.
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saint-daimon · 4 months
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"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they are doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved." -- Terry Pratchett
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There’s something to be said said about being a witch a witch must have integrity morals ethics n values or she is not a true witch
An it harm none do what ye will
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nando161mando · 7 months
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When criminals run society
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billyengland · 8 months
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What else would you add to the list?
And now that we know what's WRONG, let's do our part to fix it.
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i think a lot of modern morals fuck up when they realize they dont just apply to one situation.
'my body my choice' hell yeah! but this also applies to trans people and people of color and disabled people and neurodivergent people.
its not just an abortion thing. i think it applies in every situation, really. if i want to get top surgury, that is my coice, and it does not actively harm me to do so. it actually would improve my quality if living a lot. it is still my body my choice.(it gets more complicated with kids but the rule still applies)
if poc want to dress in a cultural way that white society deems 'inapropriate', it is still their body and their choice to dress or act in a way white society calls wrong.
if an autistic person stims in public and doesnt make eye contact and that makes allistic people uncomfurtable, it doesnt matter, because its still their body their choice and it doesnt intrude on you.
if a physically disabled person walks or talks 'weird' and have no intention of changing that, then it is still their body and their choice.
so many people agree with 'my body my choice' when it comes to abortion or letting women not wear bras or makeup, and that is wonderful, but this moral actually applies everywhere within and outside of feminist theory, and everyone should be a little more consious of that.
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