More holiday thoughts
And hearing that THING address, the UN brings me to the ethical issue sooner than I’d like. I think it’s never truly ethical to wish death on somebody but sometimes it’s the most ethical behavior I can choose and since I’m not in a position to either kill or save the people I feel need to die, it’s largely academic.
More holiday thoughts
Were I to take direct action AGAINST anyone from random Cybertrukk drivers to Trump, Vance, Noem or any of the truly awful people, THEN I’d have an ethical dilemma. There is no ethical dilemma in hating people who have done hateful things, OR in opposing them through peaceful means intended to prevent harm.
I think I’m okay in my current milquetoast feeling actions/reactions, even if my crap temper and personal history with bullies means I WANT to lash out.
More holiday thoughts
much as I’d like to love everybody OR be okay with self assured anger, the further I get from the direct instigators the more muddied things get. And ultimately my big take should be “I want these people to stop doing harm” not “I want these people punished” although it is obvious some will not stop doing harm unless dead or otherwise disempowered. I would be ethically wrong to hate all Republicans; I am not ethically wrong to hate the upper echelon or their SS.
This is all about growing up in this grinding incessant context of punishment; as a kid I had exactly no way to judge that something not actually intended as a punishment wasn't just more being punished. It's got exactly nothing to do with holidays or religion except this is another place it happened in childhood.
holidays certainly help with realizing how much space in my brain is taken up with;
"I MUST do something I'm not really interested in/so even without an authority as negative as in childhood, my assumptions kick in/this mandatory thing is good but between how I don't want to do it and how I'm innately BAD, I'll invariably fail/and when I do so I'll be punished, probably disproportionately/so now I have even less interest in doing it, and therefore more certainty I'll fuck up and be punished."
"there are more of these small footprints"
"great, we're gonna make camp in the middle of a pixie nest"
"pixies can be okay"
"we're gonna be up all night with them singing about HERE COMES YOUR MAN"
DND CLASSES AS BOOKS that's awesome lessee;
* Barbarian - Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue with pages stuck together
* Bard - A History of Reynard the Fox
* Cleric - The Dhammapada
* Druid - A Sand County Almanac
* Fighter - Osprey Campaign Series 5 "The Ardennes"
* Monk - A Book of Five Rings
* Paladin - LotR dogeared in all the Good Bits Where Someone Dies Heroically
* Ranger - All the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
* Rogue - The DM's copy of the Monster Manual
* Wizard - A Wizard of Earthsea
* Warlock - large compilation of Doctor Strange comics
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