yesterday, in amidst all the facile sentiments being milked for "if we tell the cops to save us they will!" viral security blanket feels, there was this one multiple-thousand-RT/fav take that was something like "just do good things and blah blah"
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let's see, oh hey it turns out that is how we *repeatedly* annihilate recovering local agriculture in Ethiopia by flooding the market with free food, which is then gone along with the farms
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that is how we get feminist anti-porn laws passed that are used by cops to shut down lesbian bookstores and only to shut down lesbian bookstores
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that is how we ship goats, who crop grass so closely that it dies, to soil-endangered regions where grass is the only thing holding back erosion (your Heifer International donation at work!)
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this is how we require bicyclists to wear helmets, driving down bicycle usage past the levels where safety would be promoted by ubiquity
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this is how we ban alcohol and thereby *create the fucking Mafia*
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after a certain number of times of saying "oops, sorry, i had good intentions", it becomes abundantly clear that if you were really sorry, you'd *stop fucking doing it*.
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"doing good" is way, way past that number of times. good does not blunder ahead with whatever it feels in its heart is right; good looks at the consequences of its actions and exercises care.
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and if it wants to be what it claims, it FUCKING LEARNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOODNESS AND CONFORMITY. guess which one bulling ahead with whatever will make you look wonderful to your peers is?
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so fuck you and fuck your cheap bromides, "just do good things" guy. i wish it were your own life you were going to ruin with your Dunning-Kruger bullshit.
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