Why can't people be nice
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Zombie55 — 17 years ago(December 10, 2008 04:23 AM)
Everyone is DIFFERENT. It's all part of human nature. In real life and all of it's aspects, there will always be certain situations and people (especially public, well-known and famous celebrities etc) who will either get respected or criticized. The world is NOT all light, innocence and happiness and everyone has a different idea of what the world is generally like. Disappointment and anger are just natural emotions after all.
I myself often get disappointed when I encounter angry and abusive comments. But sadly, in real life, they exist frequently and in large amounts. If you so honestly want to change the world for a better place and see someone or see somethings in a far more positive light, start with working on YOURSELF and improving yourself to be a better person.
In real life, not everyone can really be considered 100% good or 100% bad, there are complexities too! -
jacowium — 16 years ago(September 13, 2009 05:24 PM)
Wow. So doing something like saying something bad about another person, equates to being a bad person? No "margin of error" allowed in such a harsh uncompromising judgement?
Must be nice living in such a it's-either-black-or-white world. Where nobody would stand a chance in hell to go to heaven. (Pun intended.) Yes it must be comfortable choosing to see only the absolutes because you choose to avoid slippery slopes. Not as if you would know if the slopes are indeed slippery, as you choose to avoid exploring them slopes altogether. Mind you, why call it slopes at all, when there's not even any sloping of any kind? All you have to do, is to simply utilise your own moral compass for guidance. A compass that doesn't show only north and south, but east and west as well.
Anyway, here's hoping that the day will arrive when you stop being deliberately blind to all the shades of grey between the pitch black darkness on the one side of the spectrum, and the snowiest white of the far end.
Yes David, grey is as real as black, and as real as white. -
jacowium — 16 years ago(September 19, 2009 04:32 AM)
You do live in a weird world if you think that calling others "moral relativists" is going to change their way of thinking at all!
Even weirder, is that it seems you think by telling someone you don't know, "I have nothing in common with people like you", that it's going to have an impact of some kind. Hmm, yes, everybody's main goal in life must be to have everything in common with you, Lord David.
But weirdest of all, is saying "I'm sure you would find a way to see murderers, muggers, or thieves as good people as well". You are so far off base with making a lame statement like that, when you have no idea to what extent I and my family have suffered at the hands of murderers, muggers and thieves. Here in South Africa, very few people do not have first-hand experience of that.
But hey, what do I know, I'm a "moral relativist". Yuck, right?