Well put. We are just as immune as the USA thought they were

See why privacy are so important now? I’m looking at you EU

To be fair; famous people usually get shat on (and rightly so) when speaking about politics

Lol. Likewise

Yeah I guess. I take the middle ground I guess. I’ll gladly help, but I won’t go out of my way unless they really show determination. I often explain that to succeed as a programmer, you need to enjoy grinding away at a problem for hours at end just to enjoy the progress it is to get to that new problem

Not the most motivating live, but I believe it’s honest

Yeah I know. I forgot to mention I ended up as a programmer anyway and I’ve met tons of wonderful colleagues. I just hoped the elitist culture had gone away

Still?? The elitist culture threw me off programming over twenty years ago. I really thought and hoped it had changed

Sorry. You lost your right to call anything immoral when you stole a generation of Ukrainian kids with the goal of training them to be soldiers against their own country

No. This is what happens when you allow too much economic distance between the rich and the poor

Naw. I’m tired of arguing with you guys only to be banned. As a Norwegian i see 100x more pro china propaganda than I see anti china propaganda. One has to ask one self why that is

It’s the same set of accounts posting Chinese propaganda, upvoting it and down voting everyone else. Thanks for pointing them out and challenging them.

For some reason they feel the need to shout out how well china is doing. Guess the results aren’t enough

Well then. I respect his endowment. However it does not justify his actions nor excuse his rhetorics

I believe that suffering should be reduced as much as possible. So if I can, I try to make other people’s lives at least a little bit better, even if its just for a moment

This is something only a good person would say

I get that the bad is immeasurable, but isn’t good also immeasurable? How do you count the good?

Also; why do you try to be a good person? As in what is your motivation for trying to be a good person

Yet again I’m confused. Why does not being one thing turn you into the opposite? If a person goes through their whole life never doing a good deed, I wouldn’t call them evil. Just neutral I guess. It’s been a while since I reflected on moral philosophy… You are evil when your actions are evil. Maybe not even then. When your intentions are evil. People with good intentions can do bad stuff. I’d call them a lot of things, but probably not evil. People with evil intent can do good stuff, but… it would be easier for me to call that person evil. However; I think if you are able to understand the reasoning behind the evil intent, you’ll find the person either actually had good intentions clouded by a twisted world view, trauma or a disease. That’s what I mean by thinking people are inherently good. What I believe anyway.

Also. Feeling like a bad person doesn’t make you bad. I doubt good people walk around feeling like good people. Personally; I hide behind intent. I intend to be a good person. Wether I am or not is not up to me to decide. Honestly I can’t judge myself. I’m biased. It wouldn’t be objective

Ah I was thinking love as in family or good friends.

Anyway, I don’t think it’s selfish or entitled. You are allowed to be who you are, including your preferences. I also prefer a monogamous relationship for myself.

What evilness if I might ask?

I don’t get why you don’t think it’s possible. One person can love multiple people, so it’s not a question about if there’s people enough to go around.

I’m also not sure why you insist forcing people into emotional labour is a requirement for it to be truly deserved. I guess our definitions of deserving differ. People deserve justice when wronged, but don’t always get it even though we have strong systems in place to try to achieve it. Even basic human rights are not guaranteed. Not sure if my definition of deserving something is right either though, mine is something along the lines of you fulfill a premise, therefore you are entitled to. You are inherently good, therefore you are entitled to love, at least in my opinion. That does not mean you are guaranteed love though. Because life is life and stuff is unfair.

Oh and; only siths deals in absolutes

I don’t know squat about anything, I’m just here to say my opinion for some strange reason:

To me, “love yourself to be loved” and “everyone deserves to be loved” isn’t at odds. One is a premise (of dubious origin) and the other is a wish, or a world view.

I just got dumped by an SO that is head over heels in love with me. I’m not going into details, but believe me it’s true. However, I’m alot closer to hating myself than I am to loving myself. If you can believe this, then it’s proof the premise is… lacking.

I do however believe that everyone deserves to be loved. Not in the “authorities should give out love stamps” kind of way, but in the i strongly and firmly wish and believe that all people are inherently good and if they had someone who really understood them, they would see the beautify within and love them kind of way.

My two cents

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