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Whats your advice to the younger folks of Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Mine:

  1. Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.
  2. The only opinions about you that really matter are from the people you respect and who respect you back
  3. Being a kind humble person, who leads their political convictions with curiosity and not self righteousness is important. As that one person said: "I am no hero and neither are you."
  4. Don't throw out your old media (mix cds, tapes, records, photos, zinee, etc) because you think they're embarrassing. They either will not be embarrassing later or they will become expensive and you can tell them for mad bucks.
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[โ€“] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is an excellent question. Personally, no, but that's because I feel empathy towards other people and enjoy cooperation/community.

However, imagine if you were born without empathy or even enjoyed hurting others. Does that make you a bad person? Our society would certainly see it that way. You would be ostracized/incarcerated for not being the same as others because you enjoy hurting people. But does that make your existence wrong? I don't think so. To be honest I don't think there is such a thing as wrong and right, just selfish and selfless behaviors.

All this to say, I would say no and certainly don't condone it, but if you ask someone else they may say yes. Who is to say that either one of us is right?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    But who defines them? If there is no god to determine that then that belief is entirely subjective. What one person views as good will be bad to another. How do you determine who is right?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    Civilization and cooperation are intrinsic. The rules of human cooperation dictate rules of behaving. You do not require a god to establish murder and hording of resources and sexual violence as bad. They are defined as malum in sae for reason, in law.

    Community sets the rules, adjudication, and punishment regardless of the inspiration of the rule. A god can provide a framework but people can do it too.

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