• @stembolts
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    106 days ago

    It would be more accurate if you said, “This is not about right and wrong (for me).”

    If you say it’s not about right and wrong, dead stop, then you are pledging full faith to the institutions, the very ones we are critiquing.

    Basically, you are dismissing my opinion as misguided, dismissing me as missing the point and I am telling you it was expressed exactly as intended.

    In short, you are arguing on the wrong conceptual meta-level for me to respond without dismissing my own claim. If I take as True that “this isn’t about right and wrong” (it is), then I am setting aside the power I have in a democratic society to say, “Fuck this I’m changing it.” Maybe we’ve just been stuck in gridlock politics, with a ruling class that strips and monetizes every aspect of humanity that the society today doesn’t realize the power citizens wield.

    Not sure. Been fun to think and share thoughts with you though. Thanks for your time and have a nice night.

    An impasse is a perfectly acceptable outcome on a sane platform like Lemmy.