Kektuals

Kektuals t1_ix78z1p wrote

Debating on Reddit is pointless. There’s no stakes here. You’re going to think you’re right no matter what argument I give. When’s the last time you were convinced to change your mind on a topic by a debate on Reddit? How many times has that happened in all your debates? I learned to stop wasting my time a long time ago.

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Kektuals t1_ix75g09 wrote

Right and wrong are just concepts we choose to employ. It’s especially telling that we don’t even agree on them.

We cannot understand Hitler or Stalin any more than they can understand us. Judging them is something that is foolish because we presume that we know enough to judge. I suspect that I’ll even have a foolish person respond to me saying something along the lines of how we know for a fact that they were objectively wrong or evil for whatever reason. That person will have my sympathies, but not my understanding.

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