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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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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I can’t watch eye surgery videos (I can handle photos and will probably force it for enucleation at some point but oddly “in my future” makes me more squicked?) and I still need eye surgery, and, like, theoretically that’s different because I’m the object but it feels germane
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I couldn't watch the surgery video so now I'll have the cancer I guess.
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Well I mean the point of the slaughterhouse video challenge is many of us -- by which I am specifically limiting it to people above a certain level of economic privilege who also do not suffer from certain medical conditions -- don't need to eat meat to live
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Maybe so, but being willing to surrender one’s moral superiority and acknowledge that one isn’t a Good Person who Deserves Good Things is IMO important. That’s again something Christians nominally believe, until they start talking about suffering people having made “bad choices”
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The thing about Christianity is that the radical humility they profess to aspire to is extremely rare and the person who has it wouldn't necessarily be a moral paragon but would at least be admirable for achieving such a different perspective from the depressing human default
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