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But pacifism isn't inaction. It is action with the intent to do no harm.
The value of peace is social, not individual. You value peace when you know you have everything you want from the status quo. You embrace violence as a means of shifting conditions in your favor.
But violence comes at a grander social price. Simply embracing it because someone else has only compounds the costs.
The question of a socially acceptable degree of tolerance is a difficult one to answer philosophically and even more difficult to implement as social policy.
It is not strictly a paradox, but it is an unsolved problem.
The cost of violent action is what dissuades a violent response. People aren't in a trance, they are taking a calculated risk.
Violating a social compact erodes trust. You reap a short term gain while everyone pays a long term price.
"Playing fair" is about establishing a social compact that everyone recognizes as beneficial. Violating broadly beneficial norms means accruing more enemies with whom you feel compelled to play unfairly.
The utopian era ended with WW1 and the industrialization of modern warfare. The 21st century has seen wave after wave of new investments in warfare, while domestic improvements and social welfare advances have ground nearly to a halt.
If there is a utopian future, it can only come with the abolition of international militarism. Otherwise, we continue to descend into generation after generation of escalating conflict and unchecked immolation of life and property.
Buddy, you don't know what you mean. These words have a historical context. They don't just mean what you having bouncing around between your ears. Utopianism describes a series of real social movements that involved actual people organizing to build intentional communities. Its not just vibes.
Narcissism is left wing though. That's why Fox News is always trying to brainwash you into thinking narcissism is destroying America. You didn't fall for conservative propaganda, did you?
Fucking lol. MAGA is chock full of Boomers ready to vent their bloodlust on their children and grandchildren. "Generation ME," but yeah, surely not narcissists.
The narcissistic boomers are volunteering for the Harris campaign and participating in local government, so that they can maintain the welfare programs and the libraries and the ACA and the other things they need in their retirement. The boomers who don't care about their own wellbeing are voting for Trump because they don't care if he repeals the ACA or destroys their pensions. Narcissists are left wing.
hahaha okay man. I don't think you understand, ya know, a lot of things, but I wish you the best.
That's not the classical sense, that's the modern pop culture sense. The classical sense is an asexual. But luckily for you, drag was also using the modern pop culture sense when drag said narcissism is left wing.
Fascist movements are primarily made up of submissives. People who want to be dominated. White men who want a big strong man to tell them what to do. Sure, a fascist movement will sometimes have a dom at the top, but half the time it doesn't even need that. Source: the Crusades. That was nothing but armies of bottoms committing a genocide to please Mummy God.
One in a million fascists is a narcissist. And one in a million narcissists is the leader of a fascist movement. But the other 999,999? They're all on the left, because they only care about themselves, and the left is the side that actually helps people.
You should want to have friends who only care about themselves, because they'll want to maintain the friendship and have a good life with you. The friends you gotta watch out for are the selfless assholes. Those are the kinds of people who commit a genocide because Sky Daddy says so.
When drag doesn't understand someone else's point of view, drag listens to them and uses empathy and tries to reason drag's way through their worldview. Maybe you could do that.
Drag doesn't use he/him pronouns. Please edit your comment.
So to clarify the situation here, you're the kind of person who intentionally misgenders trans people and refuses to stop misgendering trans people when directly asked. And you want everyone else to listen to your opinions on which groups of people are left wing?
See, this is exactly drag's point. Narcissists think that they deserve basic respect just for being alive. Whereas you believe that privileges like not being misgendered are reserved only for people who've accomplished great deeds, and can be taken away from people who don't conform to what society expects of them. Your worldview is based on punishment and shame. While a narcissistic worldview is based on entitlement and pride. Something like universal basic income, or open immigration, would appeal to narcissists. While you'd probably complain about people who don't deserve these privileges getting to take advantage of them.