You guys ever think abt how regardless of what u do with ur lives history will not look kindly upon you because you attend one of the wealthiest universities in the worlds most powerful empire?
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You guys ever think abt how regardless of what u do with ur lives history will not look kindly upon you because you attend one of the wealthiest universities in the worlds most powerful empire?
often. but i kinda think getting caught up in hypothetical future perceptions of yourself is a waste of the privilege we've got to be here
Ya I get that. I just find it silly when people get outraged over small injustices when they live evil lives lol
Ya I get that. I just find it silly when people get outraged over relatively small shit when we live such evil lives lol
Ya it’s important to have morals and empathy. I just find people fail to have empathy for those we can’t see, and are more likely to be empathetic to those who we relate to. So like if I’m a white women in America im outraged about women’s rights, yet I’m not outraged abt the kids who built my iPhone. Thats where my issue lies.
To say that the leaders of the SDS, Peru movement, and 1968 Colombia students are looked down upon because of their student status is pretty ignorant; the students in those three instances are all seen as revolutionaries for the class(es) below them
shouldn't we be outraged by our own propensity for evil?
Which is silly I’m aware it’s impossible to stack priorities of ethics
Awful take. Plenty of history’s most influential and positively connotated figures were part of the elite of dominant empires. I would go so far as to say most. Turing, von Neumann, even as far back as Socrates, Sophocles. Just because a disproportionate number of wealthy people become negatively-connotated political figures it doesn’t mean that “history doth frown upon the wealthy and powerful” or any other dramatic bs. I think you are too self-important, perhaps
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of course, and we will always have to reckon with the fact that our empathy will never make up for the discrepancy in lived experience. but we can what-if till the cows come home but its all just a futile attempt to make ourselves feel better for not doing enough. imo we can be as pissed off that our peers don't understand the breadth of human suffering or that our grandchildren won't understand we tried our hardest but that doesn't excuse us of the obligation to try