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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You cannot positively control the actions of others, and others cannot positively control your actions. You can influence the actions of others, but you can only control your own.
We can influence members of society to “stop taking advantage of people” all day long. But if you want to control whether people are taken advantage of, you have to address the victims rather than the perpetrators.
Society can try to placate perpetrators. There’s little sense stealing something that everyone already has. We can appeal to the perpetrator’s empathy, but that assumes they have some. We can threaten repercussions and hope that has a deterrent effect. But, the final decision as to whether to perpetrate is always in the head of the perpetrator, and outside the reach of anyone else.
If you want greater control over that decision, the only option you have is to take your own action.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Ok.
I’m going to be hiking through the jungle. The lions have been counseled on my rights as a person; they know they aren’t supposed to eat me. They know that if they are caught eating me, they are going to spend 3 to 5 years in lion-jail.
Before I walk through the jungle, I’m deciding on what to wear. The choices presented to me are:
pants, long sleeve shirt, sturdy boots, wide brimmed hat, and a small backpack with water, first aid kit, radio, and extra batteries
23 pounds of thinly-sliced beef steaks, sewn into a knee-length sundress, and a pair of stiletto-heeled thigh-high boots.
The argument here isn’t which wardrobe option I choose. The argument here is whether you should say anything to me when I come out of my room in my meat-dress.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If thoughts and prayers were candy and nuts, no one would ever get raped in their butts
artificialfish@programming.dev 2 days ago
Do you like to think it, or do you believe it to be true?