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RRMM's avatar

It doesn't feel like people are moral as much as they choose Team A or Team B, then regurgitate all the shit the chosen team tells them to. In my day-to-day life, I see many pleasant people, some that seem inclined to do "the right thing." But, the pleasant people are also insanely comfortable. If pressure were applied, I'm not so sure they would do anything other than what saved their ass, "right thing" be damned. I can't say I've ever been immoral by any objective standard, but I've sure behaved poorly at times. Now, in older age, I seem to be less of an asshole. But if I were pressed against the wall, I would have no pity for those pressing. I do not have children, so the instinct to exact revenge isn't very strong in me any longer. With everything being so fucked up, if I chose not to fight with all my might, it would be from a broken spirit, and simply being sick of it all. I sure don't pretend to have the morals thing figured out.

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Control Group's avatar

One quibble with the argument would be with this sentence : "That’s basically the entire rest of Substack, and Fox, and The New Yorker, and CNN, and whatever Ben Shapiro is doing nowadays."

I don't include Substack, with those tools of propaganda because here the spectrum of writing is broad and there are all kinds of great degenerates that write here. Other people's moral outlook has never bothered me though sometimes it does seem as if I am listening to a foreign language that I do not understand. Cheers. (Of course, I'll keep reading. I liked the new metric for atrocities)

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