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There’s no need for good will. If I have to break into the difference between disingenuous, malign, and wrong, I’m going to waste time and calories on a rhetor
by intended 2y ago
There’s no need for good will.
If I have to break into the difference between disingenuous, malign, and wrong, I’m going to waste time and calories on a rhetorical approach aimed at wasting time and calories.
- card_zero 2y agoWould you like to be the recipient of good will, or is there no need?
- intended 2y agoI have often not been the recipient of good will. I have then proceeded to earn it, and if necessary through the upliftment of myself and those would hate me. And I’ve also given good will to those who wish to abuse it. I’ve learned that for them, my good will was not what they needed. They needed me to connect with their actual pain, and they operate on “respect me.” Goodwill is a value, which is meant to uphold a better society. If goodwill is not what’s needed to develop good faith, then it’s in the way of building a better society. Today, the currency is attention. Goodwill is abused, so it should be used more sparingly. If the other part of society respects respect, and respects strength, then that is what needs to be provided for them to have faith in your words.
- card_zero 2y agoPossible missing words in line 5: "and they operate on respect me"? I think I can parse that as and they operate on the concept of "respect me". Took me a while.
- intended 2y agoThank you. I think yours is actually more insightful than what I remember writing “they operate on respect” “Respect me” is more insightful.
- wruza 2y agoYou don't have to, have a nice one. Your comment is already over my quarterly limit of being assumed and interpreted.