• ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    It is common to develop a drug or alcohol addiction as part of a coping mechanism. That can absolutely make your life more difficult. Coping mechanisms can make it more difficult to make changes that will better your life.

    The path of least resistance isn’t always the easiest path.

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      1 year ago

      I promise you that this is not the “path of least resistance”. In fact, it may be the path of most resistance - that’s evidence it’s the right one.

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          People’s reactions to my choices make my life more difficult, and that’s why they are good. They can choose not to make my life more difficult; they instead make the immoral choice. My choice is moral and therefore the only one I can really make.

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            It’s interesting that any pushback you is evidence you are correct. It’s also interesting that you take no responsibility for any difficulties you might experience, it’s always the result of someone else’s choice.

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              I take responsibility for things I have actually done wrong. The problem here is that people conflate their out-of-control feelings with factual incorrectness. I can’t be responsible for your feelings, especially when you go out of your way to feel things in bad faith to blame me for those feelings. It’s your responsibility to not allow your feelings to affect your judgment in any way.

              You don’t actually care about me being truly responsible - you just want me to be stupid enough and submissive enough to accept responsibility for things I have no duty to be responsible for. You want me to be responsible for your feelings that you have in bad faith, so you can justify “punishing” me arbitrarily.

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                  You’re the one avoiding facts.

                  Right now, a third of the U.S. - the white supremacy movement - has openly announced their desire to kill off at least another third of the U.S.

                  But, for some reason, those same people will refuse to kill me - despite some of them being the exact same people who beat me up in grade school?

                  They’re murderers, dipshit - they don’t make exception for anyone - not even their own.

                  And the only reason the other two thirds aren’t actively killing me is because they know the other third will - and they plan to help them kill me.

                  Also, “out to get” is your bullshit framing base on your laziness. It’s actually opportunism - but that still leaves me dead, and doesn’t excuse their behavior - or yours.

                  Finally, you still haven’t addressed the fact that you positively, provably manipulate your own emotions in bad faith to create a justification for abusing me.

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                    Exactly how have I abused you? You keep claiming that, but all I’ve done is talk and notice that you have some views that aren’t very healthy or stand up to scrutiny.

                    a third of the U.S.

                    You believe that 1 in 3 people would support a racial genocide? Do you have any support for that?

                    Following that up you claim that everyone wants to kill you. Doesn’t that seem a little paranoid to you?

                    No one here is attacking you or threatening your life. No one. People aren’t insulting you, even though you are insulting everyone. Your world view is being questioned because it doesn’t seem healthy or rational. People aren’t saying “I think you are wrong” because they hate you and want you to “submit” but because you appear to be very unwell.

                    I know that my life improved when I changed my outlook, and I think you are clinging to unhealthy views because it makes it easier than trying to better yourself.