This is the brain-breaking thing, isn't it? I see it in a few members of my own extended family. So many people who are kindly in daily interactions are supporting truly heinous people in their quest for power. It's really hard to square.
My aunt has never been anything but lovely to me. If I was asked "Is she a good person?" I would feel…
This is the brain-breaking thing, isn't it? I see it in a few members of my own extended family. So many people who are kindly in daily interactions are supporting truly heinous people in their quest for power. It's really hard to square.
My aunt has never been anything but lovely to me. If I was asked "Is she a good person?" I would feel compelled to say yes. But what if I did not have that vested interest? I think of voting/donating/supporting as an active choice. If she is still agreeing with and supporting people I think are objectively evil, that means her actions are making the world worse. At what point does this continuous negative moral act outweigh the positives? Like, what if you mug some old ladies BUT ALSO make everyone at the children's hospital a birthday cake? How would that work? Conversely, I wouldn't think of an otherwise horrid person as forgiven because they voted "the right way."
We are now having to morally philosophize when we used to just say "oh well, she has her opinions" and it is exhausting.
I wonder how many of these people hold their nose when they vote for the massive RINO & any one with an R next to their name rather than do anything but vote for a D?
This is the brain-breaking thing, isn't it? I see it in a few members of my own extended family. So many people who are kindly in daily interactions are supporting truly heinous people in their quest for power. It's really hard to square.
My aunt has never been anything but lovely to me. If I was asked "Is she a good person?" I would feel compelled to say yes. But what if I did not have that vested interest? I think of voting/donating/supporting as an active choice. If she is still agreeing with and supporting people I think are objectively evil, that means her actions are making the world worse. At what point does this continuous negative moral act outweigh the positives? Like, what if you mug some old ladies BUT ALSO make everyone at the children's hospital a birthday cake? How would that work? Conversely, I wouldn't think of an otherwise horrid person as forgiven because they voted "the right way."
We are now having to morally philosophize when we used to just say "oh well, she has her opinions" and it is exhausting.
I wonder how many of these people hold their nose when they vote for the massive RINO & any one with an R next to their name rather than do anything but vote for a D?
Think of the Germans..........1933 to 1941.
"They never hurt anyone themselves in their whole life! They were just trying to protect their own family!"
By ratting out their neighbors to face torture and death for the crime of menorah-ing? Yeah, good luck with that pleading at the pearly gates.
Ha - that quote makes me think of Walter White on "Breaking Bad"! ;)
Will, I think we share the same Aunt, different coasts. Mine lives her faith, serving the poor, but an evangelical through and through.