"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)
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If you actually seriously believe that, if THAT IS YOUR PRINCIPLE -- "It would be better to let the world burn then to betray someone I love" -- then YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT If you refuse to show that, YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT, you DO NOT HAVE THAT PRINCIPLE
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I'm not, like, yelling at you for that It's not necessarily good to have that principle, it may be bad It may be that the right thing to do is to stab my own kin in the back for the greater good to save millions But then you have to show THAT Pick one, pick SOMETHING
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Mm. I mean the only thing I really sympathize with the author of the piece is that I think we really COULD use a backlash against mandatory despair and tragedy for sophistication. But part of that is as much bc the "sophisticated" narratives don't exactly win converts.
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But the author isn't clearly expressing their actual thesis. They mistake this deep (and valid) emotional need for narratives that make them feel powerful and capable of bestowing good with a sense of moral clarity.
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