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Why are we still giving the benefit of the doubt to the worst behaved among us? Because it’s the Christian thing to do? This is why Christian morality ultimately fails in this respect. “Boys will be boys,” “I’m sure he didn’t really mean that,” “We’re all faulty humans, so…”
2025-03-24 18:27:26.546 / 3ll5f2syctk2z
… which inevitably leads to “It’s not that big of a deal,” “Why are you overreacting?” “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill, you need to forgive and turn the other cheek…”
2025-03-24 18:27:26.547 / 3ll5f2v3r222z
… which they *then* denounce as an abuse of their sentiment, but usually only when it’s pointed out.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.548 / 3ll5f2v3syk2z
Turning a blind eye to the fact their their sentiment sets that up in the first place is a constant unsaid generosity to be equally distributed to them, which is only a reciprocal extension of the moral failing I’m pointing out.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.549 / 3ll5f2v3txs2z
This expectation that “it’s best” to assume the worst are only guilty of a grossly ignorant innocence is the most ravaging symptom the cancer of duty-bound altruism, as perpetuated by American Christianity, has to offer.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.550 / 3ll5f2v3vwc2z
We are ultimately to pat ourselves on the back in helping to create a better world where the good live in a self-righteous imprisonment while the evil prey upon us like cattle.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.551 / 3ll5f2v3xus2z
When we extend people like Trump or Elon the good faith in hopes “for the best,” never assuming or accusing them of anything negative in hopes they’ll do the same, we set ourselves up to be the martyrs I just described for our salvation.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.552 / 3ll5f2v3yu22z
This morality doesn’t benefit anyone. Neither those honest enough to call out the evil as they see it, who then become greater pariahs than the abusers, nor the abusive charlatans who end up being coddled, nor the allegedly true victims who protest too much in their masochistic passion play.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.553 / 3ll5f2v42sk2z
This extremely cloying pretense of morality is a useless relic from the past whose modern tattering is allowing many to see that fighting evil involves calling it and treating it for what it is before they end up in the gulag or completely bereft of all benefits they helped accumulate.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.554 / 3ll5f2v43rs2z
This time and the pushback to this post is the beginning of a realization that we must act differently towards fascism this time around if we don’t want to end up broken, bruised, economically decimated, or dead.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.555 / 3ll5f2v45qc2z
Rather than call for kindness and empathy to a deaf audience, we must be intellectually honest and not dismiss people claiming empathy is the fall of civilization as we know it as simply drug addled political cranks.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.556 / 3ll5f2v46pk2z
Individuals that haven’t suffered yet can no longer afford to ignore or excuse those who wish to harm them. The very systems that afforded them a comfortable buffer are now sizing them up as unprepared targets once again.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.557 / 3ll5f2v4ao22z
If they still refuse out of a misguided faith in the goodness of their predators they will end up as the victims they’ve often been able to ignore, blessed with a superior experiential comprehension that finally forces them to face this fallacious and atrocious behavior.
2025-03-24 18:27:26.558 / 3ll5f2v4cmk2z
Honestly dealing with someone’s truly despicable actions isn’t a dehumanization. It is treating them as a human failing to be human. Consequential reactions are not an automatic lack of forgiveness, but a kindness towards both the victims and the perpetrators.
2025-03-24 18:36:16.066 / 3ll5fklxmik2z
Being dishonest in an effort to be gentle is what dehumanizes people by pushing a falsehood that can never act as a predicate to any spiritual value.
2025-03-24 18:36:16.067 / 3ll5fkm7bmc2z
It transforms the victims, and the dissenters to this self-righteous grace, into spiritually bereft subhumans incapable of forgiveness who must fall in line. They must treat their oppressors better than the oppressors treat them.
2025-03-24 18:36:16.068 / 3ll5fkm7dks2z
This is not justice. This is not human. This is not enlightenment or salvation. This is carnage and a culture of death of the worst kind.
2025-03-24 18:36:16.069 / 3ll5fkm7fjc2z
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