wonder if becoming a "good" country/hooman requires the requisite steps of being a "bad" country/hooman just like being good at cooking/piano/math/etc.. requires first being "bad" at those thingshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1296746214025646080 …
this would explain the aversion to another taking the moral high ground. it's not that it is indefensible or even hypocritical but that it's oblivious to the mechanism that created the superiority
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it makes legible an insurmountable gap that only grows larger and larger even as absolute benefits rise for everyonehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1366808418980229120?s=20 …
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though this "unfair" exponential is a part of nature, nature equalizes the process through death. the dying tree or whale carcass becomes new lifehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1399150763239034882?s=20 …
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so it's not that morality lorded over another is intrinsically "bad". a good teacher or mentor or even a figure like batman uses their superiority in a "pleasing" way it's when it's combined with a belief in immortality and perpetual infallibility
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