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What's your moral/ethical basis for that? Sure, don't do this to others in your personal life (or strangers). It's arbitrary cruelty and simply abusive. But I'
by KerrAvon 4y ago
What's your moral/ethical basis for that? Sure, don't do this to others in your personal life (or strangers). It's arbitrary cruelty and simply abusive.
But I'm not convinced punching upward in this manner to the obscenely rich and powerful should be considered universally wrong. If Putin did not want to be so judged, he wouldn't put out all those pictures of himself shirtless posing with horses and dolphins. I think he in particular is fair game.
- asib 4y agoPutin is evil for reasons completely unrelated to his height.
- leereeves 4y agoWhen you insult someone powerful and evil for some immutable characteristic, everyone else who shares that characteristic also feels it.
- chrisseaton 4y agoI think it's just fundamentally wrong to abuse human beings, whoever they are, whatever they've done, for things that they can't control. Full stop. No exceptions. But more than that - if for example you abuse Lindsay Graham by calling him 'gay' - 'punching up' in your mind - then that does that say about what you think about other gay people that you think it's a criticism to call him gay?
- johnny22 4y agoplenty of legit things to say about lindsay graham without bringing any of that up indeed.
- pessimizer 4y ago> But I'm not convinced punching upward in this manner to the obscenely rich and powerful should be considered universally wrong. What if you used racial slurs, but exclusively on brown multimillionaires?