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If you look at outcomes instead of responsibility, you get the opposite conclusion. If your suffering is a defect, then maybe we can fix it. If your suffering i
by closeparen 6y ago
If you look at outcomes instead of responsibility, you get the opposite conclusion. If your suffering is a defect, then maybe we can fix it. If your suffering is a correct response to your circumstances, then it's right and proper for you to experience that suffering fully and indefinitely.
- ixtli 6y agoI think you might be missing my point: often the conditions are not correctable by the individual. They can only be resolved by collective action, and we can’t really start on that until we stop holding people responsible for things they don’t have meaningful control over.
- closeparen 6y agoWhenever I read this, I hear "I need people to stay miserable so that they will be willing to join my revolutionary army." Something really slimy about pivoting from human suffering to your pet critique of society & insisting that the only worthwhile course of action is your political agenda.