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Are you essentially suggesting that because everyone depends on certain institutions to be ethical, that's a reason not to challenge them? And you write your f
by imhelpingu 8y ago
Are you essentially suggesting that because everyone depends on certain institutions to be ethical, that's a reason not to challenge them?
And you write your friends off based on this, regardless of whether you can actually prove them wrong?
- igor47 8y agoThanks, great question. It's one thing to challenge institutions to be better, and another to write them off as bad. For instance, I want NASA's missions to succeed, and I want them to be more bold and think bigger and be more effective advocates for their own funding. I do not believe that they're plotting to conceal the truth of the moon landing, or are building and launching mind control satellites. I want the police to hold officers accountable for deadly mistakes -- I do not think that all cops are racist assholes who cannot be trusted. > prove them wrong? You're actually a space lizard. Prove me wrong. You'll find it's harder than you think. What you can do, though, is ignore people who accuse you of being a space lizard. Space lizardism is not a harmful meme. When my friends spread more harmful memes, like 'you can't trust the government so it's time to build a bomb shelter and stock up on ammo' -- I don't write them off. I engage. At the very least, they should know that I strongly disapprove even of this strain of thinking/discourse. I don't want to hear it, much as I don't want them to come over to my house and rub their cold sores on my cutlery.