Comment on His message touched me. I feel no empathy
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I have empathy for the people that suffer because of that vile cunts rhetoric.
I have empathy for that vile cunt because you don’t become that vile cunt if everything is going great for you.
But if you are responsible for so much pain in the world it is better if you don’t exist. I also would take a change of heart. If that vile cunt changes it’s ways and start doing good in the world. Fine, that’s even better than dead. But was that ever an option?
Bring evil = -1 Being dead = 0 Bring good = +1
I think that is a rational way to see that problematic.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Don’t people say that no one is the villain of their own story? They think they’re the good ones, that’s why this reasoning doesn’t work.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
What they think doesn’t matter. There is stuff that is objectively good and there is stuff that is objectively bad.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Now hold up. We’ll start having too much fun with relativism if you keep talking like that.
But even being a relativist, I find being a utilitarian is really helpful for actually interacting with the world. It’s just that whatever formula you use will always be shit from the perspective of another totally legit value system.
All that to say: Yeah I agree, doesn’t matter if he thought he was Jesus. He was causing real harm to people.
msage@programming.dev 7 hours ago
He took money to harm others. There are few more evil positions.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m not saying it’s right, I’m saying the version of the story they tell themselves isn’t the same version others have.