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What I don't understand is how those who choose profits over people, or do other such provably horrible things, can then stand up and say they are not doing sai

What I don't understand is how those who choose profits over people, or do other such provably horrible things, can then stand up and say they are not doing said thing everyone can see and record them doing. I don't understand what they expect the lies to accomplish over just saying nothing. Your actions prove your character, not words. Do they think people don't notice? Do they really think denial makes the lie a truth or makes it ok? I'd be eaten up inside with anxiety and stress if I did something like that as my conscience chewed at me. Do they not have these feelings? * I wish people who downvoted would have to put their name with the downvote and explain why. The hit and run "wrong" unaccountable nature of them in any forum bothers me. It's made it too easy for people to just jab at you without consequence and treats people like they aren't other people but rather enemies to bury in grey.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago
>I'd be eaten up inside with anxiety and stress if I did something like that as my conscience chewed at me. Do they not have these feelings? Those feelings are easy to get over; just be a hard determinist who hates authoritarian regimes and is a "good person" but lives interdependently with others in a system designed to serve Moloch AND WHICH ON AVERAGE is pretty ok or getting better and beyond your control in the meantime anyway. :) >I wish people who downvoted would have to put their name with the downvote and explain why. The hit and run "wrong" unaccountable nature of them in any forum bothers me. It's made it too easy for people to just jab at you without consequence and treats people like they aren't other people but rather enemies to bury in grey. Comment voting and its consequences have been a disaster for online discourse. uwu It treats people's ideas like they're a thing you can counter with a click and don't have to engage with. Without it, the mob must at least spam half-thought-out, rash rebuttals, and these can hilariously backfire.

shrimp_emoji 7y ago

>I'd be eaten up inside with anxiety and stress if I did something like that as my conscience chewed at me. Do they not have these feelings? Those feelings are easy to get over; just be a hard determinist who hates authoritarian regimes and is a "good person" but lives interdependently with others in a system designed to serve Moloch AND WHICH ON AVERAGE is pretty ok or getting better and beyond your control in the meantime anyway. :) >I wish people who downvoted would have to put their name with the downvote and explain why. The hit and run "wrong" unaccountable nature of them in any forum bothers me. It's made it too easy for people to just jab at you without consequence and treats people like they aren't other people but rather enemies to bury in grey. Comment voting and its consequences have been a disaster for online discourse. uwu It treats people's ideas like they're a thing you can counter with a click and don't have to engage with. Without it, the mob must at least spam half-thought-out, rash rebuttals, and these can hilariously backfire.