I don’t think that was a similar argument...but you are right, I fail to recognize the distinction and it’s mainly because man cannot live on the word of God alone. I see little that is actionable in all his theory.

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Posted by SignOfZeta on December 07, 2020 at 16:55:27 EST in reply to I think exodus and Zeta won't appreciate your distinction until they've delved deep into the Motörhead discography and steeped themselves in many hours of Lemmy interviews on Youtube. It'll be a long process. There was a thread probably 15 years ago where the same argument played out over the morality of shopping at Target vs. Walmart. You can guess exactly how the ideologies diverged on that one. (n/t) from substance J.

I don’t think that was a similar argument...but you are right, I fail to recognize the distinction and it’s mainly because man cannot live on the word of God alone. I see little that is actionable in all his theory.

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What you consider "actionable" depends so much on how you view your actions and your ethical relationship to the world. If you think you're a pretty great person, with forceful convictions that you stick to, then you're probably not going to be willing to sacrifice much of your convenience to do better. Afterall, you're already doing so much. On the other hand, when you see more clearly the compromises you make to your ideals every single day and feel all the guilt of that failure, then you'll find yourself more and more willing to take actions. You can't understand this in advance, so your judgements now about what is actionable are just not relevant. It has to start with an honest assessment of yourself. There's nothing abstract or theoretical about this. It's devestatingly practical.

(Lieas and Alibies and Opa Opa)

(19:10:10 12/07/20 EST)

I think I don't really understand what you're talking about because I am directly inconveniencing myself (monetarily) by not working with SNK anymore. Of course the ultimate rejection would be to live outside the system entirely but that's not a practical possibility when you have ailing parents with no incomes and are born into a society et cetera. you can get all the way down to the metal and say I should go off to farm by myself and affect/take care of nobody else but that doesn't feel like a real argument to me. You seemed to be saying that my sacrifice of convenience was meaningless, so I'm not really sure what you're getting at with this last bit.

(exodus)

(16:45:21 12/16/20 EST)

what he's saying is, if you don't like the way a guy is pimpin', you won't change anything by going to the cops. You gotta become a pimp and run a better game. If you aren't prepared for that, don't fuck.

(a-star)

(13:13:32 01/09/21 EST)

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