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What hill are you willing to die on even if no one in your life agrees with you? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 hours ago by Zonefive@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Water usage is probably my biggest. Living in a high desert, my wife and MIL see no problem with filling one side of the sink with hot soapy water to wash a few dishes because “that’s just how I’ve always done it”, to watering the grass and plants for hours. All of this makes me mental.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"Deserving", "credit", "blame", "justice", and related concepts are all collective hallucinations. We're all observers riding around powerless in robotic meat chassis and the part of us that experiences every bad and good thing we'll ever experience is completely disconnected from the part of us that makes any decisions. There's no "justice" in making sure someone who committed some atrocity experiences negative consequences. The "justice" system should be focused solely on rehabilitation and protecting people -- innocent or otherwise. Governments trying to be in the business of "punishing" people is misguided at best.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

In pretty much the opposite direction, my hill is that "right","wrong", "blameworthiness" and "praiseworthyness" are concepts that people are in general allergic to critical thought towards, and they are EXACTLY the concepts that people should be approaching in order to have a better life and to make a better world.