Anonymous .serase. 1w

How is it that we must forgive every dead oppressor and shitty person their crimes and hatred when they’re dead?

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Anonymous .serase. 1w

Don’t have to forgive to give respect

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Anonymous #1 1w

You think I respect him? Why would I respect people I can’t even forgive? Respect is to be earned. This isn’t some morally complex character like Julius Caesar, or Winston Churchill. Where depending on my stance on issues, I could weigh their good against their bad and decide they deserve some respect despite their actions being unconscionable.

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Anonymous .serase. 1w

I didn’t say respect what he did. Nor did I say respect who he was. Just respecting the inherent value of him being human. I don’t like seeing humans being killed and neither should you.

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Anonymous #1 1w

What’s the inherent value in being human? I don’t ask this as a some affront to what you’re saying, but genuinely. Where does this value come from? It can’t be the value of being a living thing, because we don’t care about the rest of them on this planet half as much as we do a single human who looks like us. Are we ascribing value to being the same species as us? But then why do we mourn more for this one man, for being well known, or a celebrity than we do for thousands dead in famines?

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Anonymous #1 1w

Is the value the principle of humanity, this idea that we are all born with the capacity to be something. But is this value never lost? Even when your life is spent denying the humanity of others, do they get to claim the same value they refused to extend. My point is, I don’t see any value in him. He was just another living creature on this planet. And unlike the trees which provide us oxygen, and are worth mourning individually, he has never done anything good for any single person or the -

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Anonymous .serase. 1w

-world at large. I ascribe some value to living things, for being part of an ecosystem, for existing due to the resources of this planet and this universe’s energy. But outside of his family’s sadness he does not provide any of that, and his energy and body returning to the soil where it can actually do good things, feels like the only good recourse for him.

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