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Yes in some cases there are bad things in this world that are promulgated and promoted under the guise of being good. Learning to recognize those bad things for
by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes in some cases there are bad things in this world that are promulgated and promoted under the guise of being good. Learning to recognize those bad things for what they are instead of naively accepting their self-serving sanguine explanations is part of being a developed adult.
- tptacek 6y agoYou write this as if it's insight, as if maybe it's the first time it's occurred to the reader that "good" things can be bad. We all know that. It's the sentences that come after that thought that have meaning.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoI don't think it's particularly insightful. I'm just stating it since it doesn't seem to occur to most adults these days. Certainly it is interesting to consider the set of circumstances that give victimhood and fragility such power to those who claim it. That's quite the inversion. It is interesting that the people who focus so much on the analysis of hierarchies to the point where they see them everywhere and assert the unjustness of hierarchy qua hierarchy end up just inverting these hierarchies and using their power to tyrannize other people. What does that say about the people that allow them to do that?