The prolife party is calling for death? This is a familiar pattern. How long you think until it comes out hes fucking kids?
Hey dude, got news for you. The leader of your party fucked children. Seems how he’d measure their vaginas is more of a risk to kids.
Yes, I know. I am not debating this. I accept this as a truism and one of the fundamental weaknesses of humans and society-- one which we must constantly struggle against… which we must understand it if we have any hope of overcoming the worst parts of ourselves. It’s not enough to simply fight back against it, but we must come to understand what about ourselves, as humans leads us to this and how to, ultimately, stop it from happening in the first place. Or, at least… become better people and society for it, even if it’s in baby steps.
But, first, we must understand the very core of the “why” of it all, and that’s something that keeps evolving into something more complex-- not just in how people understand it, but also (especially recently) how it’s being used to manipulate people into political positions.
I mean we clearly both understand it.
You can’t stop it from happening. Anymore than you can stop yourself from needing oxygen to breathe. Reality is limited, people are limited. My perspective is rare and only a product of certain luxuries that many people don’t and will never have and many people are totally hostile to my perspective to the point they’d kill me if they could.
I’ve been threaten with violence and physically attacked by people on the right and the left for my own viewpoints. Because violence is a great way to silence people who are different than you. Reason I left reddit was because I was constantly being banned for my perspectives that human beings are what they are and there is no changing us into beings of perfect good, and believing you are a being of perfect good is the more surefire way for you to justify violence and evil upon others.
I just pursue my own good and focus on what I value as bettering myself. Other people disagree with me deeply about that and often tell me that I’m a stupid idiot for not doing what they think I should be doing, which is mostly agreeing with them and validating their choices and beliefs. But my choices come at a cost, I don’t get to ‘belong’ or be a part of any tribe because I won’t pursue the party line of ‘us vs them’ and people think I’m a selfish-jerk for not doing so. Even in personal relationships, I refuse to see the world in ‘us vs them’ terms and it drives my partners insane because to them the point of a family is to form a unit to ‘protect’ itself from the ‘evils’ outside of the unit.
look… we’ve had a nice conversation up to this point, but I’m going to say something that is going to sound confrontational, but I’m not intending to insult you…
but this isn’t about you… buuuut you may have, without realizing it, given me not the answer I was looking for, but the lens I need to look through in oder to better understand it. You’ve given me an interesting perspective on this and other matters that, maybe, I hadn’t considered thoughtfully enough.
OK.
it is about me, and about you. it’s about everyone. I used to teach. funniest part of it was people think it was a some sort of deep revelation when they learned something.
I’d like to get together over a couple of beers and have a chat.
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