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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Like, look, the whole definition of being a good person means being good even if it doesn't actually work out in the end If you need to know whether it will all work out before you do anything good, you're not actually a good person You're a fake good person

      1 reply 6 retweets 39 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      We all fucking know that, and yet moral guardians in every era seem to demand that the world of fiction wipe away this basic truth so that the imaginary world it presents us instead can be "inspiring" and "hopeful"

      2 replies 3 retweets 26 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      And it's not like there's no place for that But if you live in that escapist fantasy all the time, you become thoughtless and stupid, and when you become thoughtless and stupid, you become an asshole At least you should consider that, if you think fiction affects culture

      1 reply 4 retweets 22 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Alan Moore went in hard on this in his take on Watchmen There's something very specifically American about Superman He's the world's strongest man because he's the world's righteous man and vice versa

      1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      On the one hand it's an inspiring story of hope and escapist fantasy to cling to for members of the underclass who have never seen power wielded other than to oppress etc etc etc On the other hand, it's *fucked up*

      2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      It's inspiring TO YOU, if you're in the implied audience and the story is told in such a way that you easily identify with the guy If not -- if you're, say, a foreigner who can't help but see Superman as an American symbol -- it's pretty fucking scary to see that thought process

      1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      "Of COURSE I'm the good guy Of COURSE I'm the one who can be trusted with nuclear bombs If I weren't the one with the right to have nukes, then how come I AM the one who has nukes, huh?" (This is literally the message of The Incredibles and that's also fucked up)

      3 replies 4 retweets 29 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      I mean in the case of Orwell's take on King Lear, the tragedy here is simple Lear wants to have his cake and eat it too He wants to magnanimously give away his power and retire He also gets mad when the people he gives his power to start using it against him

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      Well, don't give it away then You could've prevented this whole thing by just not doing that If you don't want people to do things to you against your will, don't give up your power That's what "power" means

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      People want to be *proven right* when they do things out of principle, they engage in a certain degree of magical thinking You leave your door unlocked and some primitive part of your brain thinks that by doing so, you will inspire people to be good and not break into your house

      3 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

      But that's not what having principles actually means If you really have principles, you have to prepare that those principles will fail in the material world If you really decide to trust someone, you have decided to allow that person to harm you

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          That's the tragic sense of life, that good deeds are punished If you actually want to be sure that people don't come into your house, then you have to lock your door, and put up a fence You don't actually get to have both

          2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          Sometimes, you have to accept that sticking to your principles will harm you, and stick to those principles anyway and accept the harm Or decide the harm is not worth it, and abandon those principles, and be a less principled person but a safer one Either one is tragic

          4 replies 6 retweets 25 likes
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        2. muddlewait‏ @muddlewait 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          The one thing in Rowling I can’t throw away is the moment when Harry and Cedric take the cup. It is morally the best thing either of them can do and it ends up having the worst possible outcome of all options. And that is no one’s fault but the bad guy’s. And that *CAN HAPPEN*.

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @muddlewait @arthur_affect and

          Well the thing is there, too, it's largely a function of whose story it is right? It doesn't end up "all right" in the end, but it isn't the end either. But it is Cedric's end. It's only not crushing because of whose story it ultimately is.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and

          I mean, it also means acknowledging that you will inevitably fail at your principles in some measure. There's a quote from one of Bujold's Vorkosigan books that's super relevant here:

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and

          "…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn."

          1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
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