🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agoAnon tries to helpsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down15
arrow-up1190arrow-down1imageAnon tries to helpsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareIndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·3 months agoHalf feels right. The moral median is forever moving up. I can trust most people in a room to avoid murdering, robbing, raping, or engaging in political conversation with me, so that’s my rationale.
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoThat’s a big ask of people nowadays, are you sure you didn’t set the bar too high. /S
minus-squareEtterra@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoDo not conflate fear of punishment with morality. Most people suck, but are at least capable of a very basic level of cost-benefit analysis.
Half feels right. The moral median is forever moving up. I can trust most people in a room to avoid murdering, robbing, raping, or engaging in political conversation with me, so that’s my rationale.
That’s a big ask of people nowadays, are you sure you didn’t set the bar too high. /S
“People”
“… what a bunch of bastards!”
Do not conflate fear of punishment with morality. Most people suck, but are at least capable of a very basic level of cost-benefit analysis.