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CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I like this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.:
Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 2 days ago
P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m depressed, so I guess he thinks everyone who’s depressed should kill themselves? It’s a good quote, but it’s too generalising, if you ask me.
Janx@piefed.social 1 day ago
Superman himself couldn’t make the leap from “you should do the right thing, even if it kills you” to “mentally-ill people should commit suicide”.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Sorry to hear about your depression, I’ve been there myself.
To paraphrase how I understand the quote.
Sometimes doing the morally right thing is hard to do, but it is important to do that as a human. If you haven’t found something important enough for you to take a stand on, to stick to your convictions and defend, then what are you doing?
I’m sure there is something you think is morally correct or morally wrong, like maybe you think harming children is wrong. If that were the case, you should defend children, as it would be good to stop children from being harmed.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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scarabic@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I really believe everyone has their thing. I would die to keep trees from being wiped off the face of the Earth, or to permanently free the world from nuclear weapons. Or to protect another member of my family.
This is how I read King’s quote. Not as “You piece of shit! You won’t die for the cause?” But more as “if you really don’t see anything world dying for in this world, you must not be looking, because it doesn’t take much to find something.”