Yeah, that’s not how conversation works, my lemmite acquaintance. One isn’t required to slavishly pound away at the initial focus of a comment. It’s not only acceptable to work tangents and expand on sub-topics, it’s expected to some degree or another.
People seem to think that every interaction online is a debate. It isn’t. Me? I’m just drifting along, chilling, shooting the shit with other human beings.
In that spirit, why do you think “goodness” is either a singular thing that is the totality of a person, or that there aren’t gradations of it? Not all saints are of equal goodness, nor are all villains purely evil. In terms of the human condition, nobody is so completely single faceted that it’s useful to apply good/bad paradigms to the entirely of the person unless the entirety of their actions so heavily skew things that good or evil is such a large percentage that it’s moot that other aspects exist.
I think we can agree that there’s difference between someone like Trump and someone like bezos. Both absolutely horrible people overall, but the degree of horror is not the same.
As such, when you look at the bad of a given person, it has to be taken along with the good.
Now, I think we’d also agree that billionaires as a thing is a net evil so horrid as to need abolishment. But it doesn’t preclude individuals from being the same kind of mix that you and I are. See, I know I have the capacity for darkness and evil. I also know that I choose, even when darkness is lapping at the shores of my true self, to do the most good I can. I hope that the opposite is true for you, that your inner goodness is so great that only puddles of evil reside which are easily relegated to meaninglessness.
But people are never so purely good that they’re incapable of bad things. The same is true of even the most vile examples of humanity from history. In the worst cases, any good may have been accidental, but still.
The ruling class of the ultra wealthy should indeed be abolished. But it’s just silly to pretend that they aren’t human, and thus a spectrum of good and bad
Yeah, that’s not how conversation works, my lemmite acquaintance. One isn’t required to slavishly pound away at the initial focus of a comment. It’s not only acceptable to work tangents and expand on sub-topics, it’s expected to some degree or another.
People seem to think that every interaction online is a debate. It isn’t. Me? I’m just drifting along, chilling, shooting the shit with other human beings.
In that spirit, why do you think “goodness” is either a singular thing that is the totality of a person, or that there aren’t gradations of it? Not all saints are of equal goodness, nor are all villains purely evil. In terms of the human condition, nobody is so completely single faceted that it’s useful to apply good/bad paradigms to the entirely of the person unless the entirety of their actions so heavily skew things that good or evil is such a large percentage that it’s moot that other aspects exist.
I think we can agree that there’s difference between someone like Trump and someone like bezos. Both absolutely horrible people overall, but the degree of horror is not the same.
As such, when you look at the bad of a given person, it has to be taken along with the good.
Now, I think we’d also agree that billionaires as a thing is a net evil so horrid as to need abolishment. But it doesn’t preclude individuals from being the same kind of mix that you and I are. See, I know I have the capacity for darkness and evil. I also know that I choose, even when darkness is lapping at the shores of my true self, to do the most good I can. I hope that the opposite is true for you, that your inner goodness is so great that only puddles of evil reside which are easily relegated to meaninglessness.
But people are never so purely good that they’re incapable of bad things. The same is true of even the most vile examples of humanity from history. In the worst cases, any good may have been accidental, but still.
The ruling class of the ultra wealthy should indeed be abolished. But it’s just silly to pretend that they aren’t human, and thus a spectrum of good and bad