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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
ZoeB:
" Besides which, forgiving other people is something you do for yourself, not for them."
Yes. This.
Is it cold in here?:
And it's utterly different from renouncing the right to restitution, or condoning what they did.
One of my favorites quotes is from a Buddhist teacher:
--- Quote ---Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
--- End quote ---
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 23 Aug 2017, 17:08 ---It isn't "OK" to by default treat everyone rude. Yes, some people do, and it can be complicated, especially if they have a past that caused that kind of attitude, but to say it is morally fine is going beyond saying "I understand" it is saying "I condone it."
--- End quote ---
This mixes a lot of larger ideas, but the tl;dr version is: No.
Slightly longer version: there's nothing immoral about rudeness; you're confusing morality with social mores, which are not at all the same thing nor are they equally relevant to everyone.
There are a lot of things I don't condone that are also "morally fine."
Tova:
So many pages of conversation, and no-one has yet pointed out the most glaring issue with the most recent comic.
Shortbread >> all cookies
Also chocolate digestives >> mint milanos whatever they are
@ me or not
Edit: then there are macarons, which are frankly magnificent.
Emperor Norton:
Might I suggest if you don't want to open a can of worms, not opening the can of worms.
My moral compass is simple: Help others as much as possible, hurt others as little as possible.
There are times when hurting others is necessary. Hurting Nazis is fine with me, as hurting Nazis helps those they would oppress, and well the Nazis kind of made themselves a target with intentionally horrid behavior. As said earlier, sometimes people will get hurt even by polite education of their wrongs, but it is still necessary to educate people on their errors. Snapping at people doesn't fit into necessary.
There are times in which you can't help others, due to the need to take care of yourself. This is also necessary. If you don't take care of yourself properly, both physically and mentally, you cannot help others.
And I confuse nothing. If people going against social mores hurts someone unnecessarily, then it breaks my moral stance, if breaking the social more does not hurt someone unnecessarily, the social more is unnecessary to follow. (For instance, being gay used to be against social mores, but the only people it "hurt" were bigots who do not deserve to be catered to, and hence, is not necessary to follow). Being rude to people who are doing no intentional harm is unnecessarily hurting people (if you politely told someone they were acting in a privileged and ignorant manner, and they double down on their assholish, they are being intentionally dickish, and go ahead and be rude), therefore I see it as wrong, regardless of what social mores say.
PS: If you don't want to discuss something, don't just cross it out. The idea that that means I then can't respond is basically saying "Hey, I can call you wrong, but you can't respond."
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