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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (4 children)

ah yes the eternal debate on tolerance of evil.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think you can "love" someone without tolerating their nonsense. It's all about being willing to find a consensual way of interacting. Theoretically it may be impossible, but we can still try.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ironically this is the whole 'love the sinner, not the sin' bit that Christians love to use to excuse their own intolerance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I think a lot of modern Christians are unaware of how masochistic and sadistic they really are. They get so hung up on the idea that they have a "get out of jail free" card that it justifies all the rest of their behavior, even when that behavior is explicitly called out in their manual lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I have an ex who cheated on me. I'm not holding on to anger about it, I do honestly hope they've found happiness, but I want nothing to do with them again and if they showed up at my door I would tell them to leave.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, the paradox of tolerance.

My favorite solution that I've heard, is to treat tolerance not as a moral imperative, but rather as a social contract.
Anyone who is tolerant will have tolerance extended to them. Those who are intolerant, on the other hand, can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, I've never really seen the paradox as a paradox for that reason. The question, rather, should be what precisely we require from the social contract. The old question of "where is the line at which point my freedom impacts your freedom". But no matter where that line is, it means that if someone spews hate, you're allowed to respond in kind

(Morally, that is. If it's covered by law then legally it should be handled through the justice system and responding in kind would fall under vigilante justice)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Secularly everything has to be a social contract because there is no moral authority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, for your own moral behaviour, you'd be the authority...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You're saying the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The way I practice it is that everyone gets a basic level of tolerance. Free speech, basic human rights, and a low level of respect and decency. But until you treat others the same there will be a social friction wherever you go and eventually a hard line. Like, no, we don't want you in here if you're just going to be an asshole everyday. Come back in a week and we'll see if you've learned some self-control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They did that in east europe (fucking off), founded ISIS, flooded an area with drugs and overran it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah the Internet has insulated people from how a society works. They can "fuck off"... to where? Somewhere they'll still vote and encourage people to follow their example? Somewhere without people telling them they're wrong where they can become more and more extreme?

It's like prison. Yeah let's take all the people that have a proclivity for crime and put them together. Then teach them to obey the system by using it to punish and traumatize them. After all, they deserve it. They'll realize that, any day now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (21 children)

To love someone is sometimes to say them that their actions are evil.

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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Someone just told me yesterday Mark hamil voices skeleton in the new he-man and i really have to watch it now. I need his take on "nyaaa haha"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He was surprisingly good in The Fall of the House of Usher.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 3 points 6 months ago

I really enjoyed him in that! Probably my favorite character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Really? Well this not bad either. Didn't he say he was gonna stop voicing joker? I hope thats not true cuz for me hamil is the joker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He and Kevin Conroy retired the voices of Bats and Joker but came back several times. They retired after Arkham Asylum and came back for Arkham Knight (Origin had different VAs), and they both came back for Killing Joke as well, and their final act together was the Crisis trilogy. The last part is expected to release this year, so we have one last adventure with Kevin's Batman.

After Kevin's death I think the retirement may stick for Hamill. He's said before that he wouldn't do Joker without Conroy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

there's a new he man? lolll

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Skeletor was the victim. He was the rightful heir.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This comment made me realize how little I know about the He-man extended universe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All monarchies are illegitimate, the warring nobles will not spared from the guillotine just because they look good in a leather loincloth and someone gave them a magic sword

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Work your fingers to the bone what do you get

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Boney fingers. Boney fingers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I, uh… I don't get it 😅

In my defense my native language isn't English and I've got insomnia up the wazoo, so my brain is soup

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This did nothing to alleviate my confusion and I'm completely fine with that, because 🎶I owe my soul to the company store 🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rhyming is for conformists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] TheRealLinga 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't want Christians to love me. I think it's sexual harassment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think i prefer food poisoning and broken bones to christian 'love', which often induces broken bones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

"There's no hate like Christian love"

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