>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

>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.