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How do you campaign against cruelty without moralizing rhetoric?

It's kinda hard to talk about bullying, witchhunts, and othe...
Shaky national
  11/22/17
What’s wrong with morality?
bat shit crazy aquamarine bawdyhouse boistinker
  11/22/17
it's needed for society to thrive but 'coolness' and other v...
Shaky national
  11/22/17
have the cast of The Avengers sing in a music video
Violent stead
  11/22/17
Who is cooler, your standard issue lib, standard sjw, standa...
electric twinkling uncleanness electric furnace
  11/22/17
The alt-right is an example of how 'coolness' gets people to...
Shaky national
  11/23/17


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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:55 PM
Author: Shaky national

It's kinda hard to talk about bullying, witchhunts, and other 'cruelties for sport' without losing your equanimity. But at the same time, morality is a really funny thing. You know that to make an effective moral argument you actually can't use the word 'evil'? Using that word, at least prominently, practically guarantees the argument will fail.

The reason is, most people subconsciously think morality is faggy grandma shit, and actually worship at the altar of cool. So to make a moral argument about anything you actually need to prove the action you're critiqueing is pathetic, weak, unprofitable or boring, not "evil," because evil sounds too christian. The whole thing is a giant mess and I'm not sure it can be untangled. This shit may well be terminal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753830)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:56 PM
Author: bat shit crazy aquamarine bawdyhouse boistinker

What’s wrong with morality?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753838)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:57 PM
Author: Shaky national

it's needed for society to thrive but 'coolness' and other values surrounding it have won the campaign for hearts and minds, meaning that morals now have to be advocated for indirectly. It's insane.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753842)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:57 PM
Author: Violent stead

have the cast of The Avengers sing in a music video

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753841)



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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:58 PM
Author: electric twinkling uncleanness electric furnace

Who is cooler, your standard issue lib, standard sjw, standard conservative, or your standard issue alt-righter?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753846)



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Date: November 23rd, 2017 12:01 AM
Author: Shaky national

The alt-right is an example of how 'coolness' gets people to tune out reality. 90% of their content is about the image/attitude of their projects, while maybe 10% is about the underlying moral imperative.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753853)