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You’re conflating personal morality with group morality. As an individual, you should strive to always follow your moral code. As a member of a group, you sho
by catiopatio 4y ago
You’re conflating personal morality with group morality.
As an individual, you should strive to always follow your moral code.
As a member of a group, you should accept that everyone is fallible — including and especially yourself and your ability to even define what constitutes fallibility.
There is much to lose and little to gain by ostracizing others for their immaterial human failings.
- cjohnson318 4y agoThe HN analog is Postel's law: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others".