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Bad analogy. My choice of beverage does not affect other people.
Treating people with basic respect and as equals is no one’s responsibility to “make sexy”. Let’s say the convo was about being racist. Is it someone’s responsibility to make it cool to treat another person as an equal? Or would you be bigoted because it just how things are?
Yeah, I get it. It’s really hard to understand. It’s just basic respect, right? How could someone not value basic human decency?
I can’t answer that question. All I know is that some people just don’t.
It doesn’t make sense to me that domestic abusers will beat up someone that loves them, yet it still happens. Politicians push legislation that they know will hurt their constituents, yet they still push it. Parents will try to force the lifestyle they desire for their children on their children out of love, even as it alienates their children, yet they persist. Some (many/all??) criminals know what they do hurts other people, yet they still commit crime.
I don’t get it either. I only know basic human decency isn’t valued by a lot of people. And you can indignantly scoff at such people all you want, incredulous that they just don’t get the basics of empathy, a fundamental human emotion. They’ll hurt others all the same.
Me, though? Drawing on my empathy, I hope such people find the happiness and freedom they’re looking for without the pain and suffering they cause.
Bad analogy. My choice of beverage does not affect other people.
Treating people with basic respect and as equals is no one’s responsibility to “make sexy”. Let’s say the convo was about being racist. Is it someone’s responsibility to make it cool to treat another person as an equal? Or would you be bigoted because it just how things are?
Edit: changed Influence to affect
Yeah, I get it. It’s really hard to understand. It’s just basic respect, right? How could someone not value basic human decency?
I can’t answer that question. All I know is that some people just don’t.
It doesn’t make sense to me that domestic abusers will beat up someone that loves them, yet it still happens. Politicians push legislation that they know will hurt their constituents, yet they still push it. Parents will try to force the lifestyle they desire for their children on their children out of love, even as it alienates their children, yet they persist. Some (many/all??) criminals know what they do hurts other people, yet they still commit crime.
I don’t get it either. I only know basic human decency isn’t valued by a lot of people. And you can indignantly scoff at such people all you want, incredulous that they just don’t get the basics of empathy, a fundamental human emotion. They’ll hurt others all the same.
Me, though? Drawing on my empathy, I hope such people find the happiness and freedom they’re looking for without the pain and suffering they cause.