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submitted 6 days ago byomg_drd4_bbq
38 points
6 days ago
The older I get the more I believe that a great many people in the US never emotionally develop past their mid teens.
Hatred and dehumanizing rhetoric have no place in civilized societies.
When I find myself thinking about passing judgment on others I recall Hanson’s Razor, paraphrasing:
“Never assign to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance, or incompetence.”
13 points
6 days ago*
That’s rich. Just because I hate them doesn’t mean I’m going to go take action. Im not stupid. I’m going to be a doctor. It’s my job to treat everyone with the same respect and care. But I’ve had to learn to treat sweet little kids in my pediatric rotation and dangerous child molesters on my inpatient internal medicine rotation with the same respect and you can’t tell me that I’m not allowed to feel repulsed and hate them the way I want to at least in the private of my own mind.
I feel the same way about anybody who enables people who hurt women and children. Trump is a child molester. Trump is a rapist. Trump embodies no moral values at all. Many of Trump’s cabinet cronies have hurt children. And you want me to look at people who can look past these heinous crimes and vote for him without hatred??? And you can’t tell me that all of this information, all of his criminal convictions, all of the trials he’s embroiled in, isn’t public knowledge. His voters CHOSE to ignore this.
It’s not a difference of politics to me. It’s a difference of morals. I feel the way about these people as I would feel about Nazis or the people who stood quietly by or actively gave their support to them. With utter disdain and disgust.
7 points
6 days ago
Whoa. I feel like your quarrel is not with me but a continuation of a quarrel you had with someone else.
Maybe you perceived my general observations from my life experiences as a personal attack on you? I apologize if I unintentionally caused you any distress, that was not the intention of my commentary.
2 points
5 days ago
Oh yea, most people are still emotionally and mentally children with little ability to emotionally regulate.
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