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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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
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 @loudpenitent and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and
But of course they don't actually do it Of course they don't, the idea of such a person -- "Christlike" -- is exciting because it's almost impossible to be that It's so much easier and more rewarding to pretend you've become like that, but actually stay the same
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and
Not that they're special -- Buddhists aren't all that enlightened as a class of people either, and atheist rationalbros aren't very rational But the Christian "born again" narrative makes the way they deal with constantly falling short of their ideal a real headtrip
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