(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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Replying to @muddlewait @loudpenitent and
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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait and
(I say this from firsthand knowledge)
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