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*.
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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.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @muddlewait and
And like this is why TLOU2 *really* ticked some people (myself included, to a degree) off; its "lack of moral clarity" as the article proclaims it is *really* just refusing to assign a clear, absolute protagonist and antagonist. Giving the antagonist their own full arc & quest.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @muddlewait and
And that is saying something pretty fundamental about the falsehood of narrative, isn't it The game would be less "morally gray" if we cut Abby's half of the game You're saying you want me to withhold information so your moral decisions are easier to make
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
(That's slightly unfair, since after all this is all fiction anyway Even so though It's a trite point but I think it's a true one -- if showing you a full biopic about this enemy soldier's life would make it unacceptable to kill him, then you need to quit the Army)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's just, like Sure, if I try to rub your nose in every negative moral consequence your choices have, after a certain point I'm being an asshole We all need a little bit of obliviousness to get through the day But it's not a good look to be *that* allergic to knowing things
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Like someone who performatively goes "I'm an empath, I can't stand to see or hear or even think about a living thing in pain If there's an animal dying on TV you have to turn it off" "But do you eat meat?" "Yes but I could NEVER kill an animal myself"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Okay well... fine then But that kind of being an "empath" isn't a MORAL thing, at all It's not morality, it's an aesthetic preference If you yourself do think of it as morality, then that makes you a moral coward and a hypocrite
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Arguably worse than someone who just openly doesn't give a shit about animals and thinks they're just piles of edible meat that happen to have faces If you think killing animals is *wrong*, *don't demand other people do something for you that you think is wrong*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
If you can't sit through this video of how a slaughterhouse works, then fucking stop eating meat If you think becoming "desensitized" by watching this video until the blood and guts no longer bother you is making you a worse person, then fucking stop eating meat
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It's really not, at all, an unreasonable ask As clownish as PETA et al can be, the overwhelmingly vicious negativity omnivores aim at vegans is because a lot of people really do feel "not having to think about stuff" is a right (and know it's not a justifiable one)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
(I took the challenge to watch the slaughterhouse video and I still eat meat I don't think that's necessarily a good decision, I certainly don't think it means I "passed a test" -- it's a totally meaningless gesture in the end But also, like, literally the least you can do)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and
I mean I certainly am squeamish around blood and the like, I don't think I could watch the video. But I don't think that makes me like, a better person, any more than avoiding any other number of awful but socially necessary tasks SOMEBODY has gotta do does.
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