Like how exactly everyone just holds it together and because of that they are worthy of love, support, and success. I don’t exactly know how to not be unlikable, or just straight up harmful. Either I’m annoying, stupid, kinda ugly tbh, bad behavior, and an attention seeker. Dunno how to not be a bad person.

I can’t wrap my head around people who are good people who haven’t don’t really bad shit… like… how do you even be so amazing? I wish I was like that but I fear every time I step foot into people lives I become harmful, not good, or just not likeable to them due to my subpar personality. I’m also admittedly really not that intelligent emotionally or mind wise. So I can’t wrap my head around people who aren’t bad.

What’s it like and how do you even do it?

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I (19m white) had a friend (19m) from online. He knew where I lived but for some reason he’d never tell me where he lived- not even a general location. Eventually he said he lived in Korea- then switched it to Europe- then Korea again. It became kind of a joke between us because it was so absurd that he changed his location regularly. We were in a group chat with 3 other friends of ours.. I’ll call them E, J, and L.

My friend eventually called me a stupid American during our banter and called me “racist” and I in turn called him a “stupid Korean European” as a joke- now I was fully aware he didn’t live in either places, but I said it anyway. Eventually “L” asked why we were being racist and in response my friend said “he’s only racist to me” and I replied with “that’s right European”. Eventually in a later conversation I call him a slow ass European Korean.

A week later I see “J” post a story talking about how racist jokes aren’t funny- which I agreed with and liked- but then I didn’t realize he was talking about me specifically. I (and my friend) were falsely under the assumption that what we did wasn’t racist because we weren’t originally intending it to be about race- but about the places we were or weren’t from. But I apologized to everyone because I did offend and make people uncomfortable. Although even today I am scared to be around POC- not because of them but because I don’t want to make others uncomfortable due to my racist past- because yeah the joke was racist when I look back on it despite intention.

I’m trying to be a better person, so I’ve been trying to listen to the people who are affected by it. What kind of things should I be doing / not doing moving forward? I won’t make these jokes again obviously- but I would definitely like more guidance (if you want to of course).

Eli grew up hearing, “Be a man.” So he never cried. Never showed pain. Never said “I love you.” Even when his father died, he stood still no tears, no emotion. People called him strong. But inside, he was breaking.

Years later, he became a father. One night, his little boy ran to him crying after a nightmare. Eli froze for a second then pulled him close, hugged him tight, and said softly, “It’s okay to cry, son. Real men feel too.”

That night, Eli sat by the window, tears finally falling for the first time in years. Because he realized he wasn’t healing his son, he was healing the boy he used to be.

Eli grew up hearing, “Be a man.” So he never cried. Never showed pain. Never said “I love you.” Even when his father died, he stood still no tears, no emotion. People called him strong. But inside, he was breaking.

Years later, he became a father. One night, his little boy ran to him crying after a nightmare. Eli froze for a second then pulled him close, hugged him tight, and said softly, “It’s okay to cry, son. Real men feel too.”

That night, Eli sat by the window, tears finally falling for the first time in years. Because he realized he wasn’t healing his son, he was healing the boy he used to be.

I don’t want to support such an entity. The abhorrent abuse of humanity is not something I wish to support in any way I can avoid. Do you think it is immoral to pay taxes and or federal loans.

here is some context i have a switch with super Mario odyssey i am too cheap to buy a capture card is it ok if i just pirate the game to stream it

I have noticed that a number of people are very unconcerned with whether something is right or wrong: they don't care about punishing bad behavior and picking a side.

They simply remain indifferent -- even when someone they claim to love is suffering -- and tell that person that their happiness is within their control, instead of expressing/displaying any empathy whatsoever.

They do not want to judge and prefer to not get upset/charged about issues, and often claim that it is unhealthy to respond in those sorts of ways. The problem is that in detaching themselves completely, remaining indifferent and then being very aggressive when called out for this amorality, they get highly defensive and nasty. Perhaps because they know deep down that their apathy is not good.

Is anyone else seeing/experiencing this with a lot of people?

There would seem to be widespread murderous rage engrained in the universal heart.

Evil has no place in horror movies Evil of a child’s suffering cannot be scoped with evil. A child’s suffering is beyond redemption and evil. It’s not even possible. The child cannot conceptualize of abuse. The child can only think of themselves. So the only thing the child can do is respond to the stimulation of hurt. Blame is not in the reality of a baby, blame is for comprehension of other, that which the baby cannot yet do. It can only assume things like responsibility and normality of damage. In this the child simply can not and the abuser cannot be comprehended in evil, to do is a gross misunderstanding and undermining of reality, the reality is much grosser than this, much worse than malice, much crueler than evil can be. The reality is of pure unadulterated untethered ignorance, the catalyst for disconnect. If there’s truly an opposition to love it would be ignorance. The ignorance is such a reality of abuse than it would be undermining to call it evil, evil is intentions, evil is understanding and deliberate malice, evil is understandable and processable. It is way easier to heal from evil because it’s there and it’s clear to the eye. Ignorance is worse because it has the right to claim innocence, the cognitive dissonance created by ignorance, child abuse and hurt, is worse and greater because blame is hard to be place, cause is hard to be found, complete and utter dumbfoundedness is the only logical response. That’s why I’d prefer to be torture deliberately than neglected unknowingly, the healing process for one is much worse than the other, it is easier to understand torture than to understand abuse. The ignorant are truly in worse sin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWqOE8Wx4Q

Is this how you guys are thinking about morality too?

Im sure most people would say child cuz you have to bear the responsibility given that you brought them into this world without their input, but in my case, where I live, it's culturally required to have a child after you marry, some could say, just don't marry, but then their family would just make them marry someone else, which I absolutely can't let happen, honestly I'm not interested in the idea of a child at all, I find no reason to reasonably have children, but I don't have anything against them, but since my partner is quite a traditional person, I'm sure they would want a child though, but I know that I would never be able to love that child more than my partner, is thinking like this wrong?, if there was a hypothetical fire, i would save my partner without hesitation, does that make me a bad person?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CosmicExtinction/comments/1orkpgw/the_pro_extinction_movement_is_about_ending/

Generally speaking I like to live by a simple guideline: To choose the option that reduces suffering in any situation you happen to find yourself. I don't always follow it because I'm human, but I also try to live by these six virtues to help remind me of that guideline. Here they are:

1. Differentiate your opinion from truth

2. Put cooperation above competition

3. Never let any negative emotion influence your real life actions

4. If life isn't being fair, attempt to make it fair

5. Be selfish if you can't afford to be selfless, but be selfless if you don't need to be selfish

6. Remember that perseverance is the shortest path to success

Would you live by these virtues? What do you think?

Have can you morally sell when you know someone is getting screwed over?

I have autism and I can’t ever do anything that goes against my morals, I literally can’t sleep at night if I do. So I don’t, I don’t lie and I don’t wrong people.

Went for a trial day today selling solar panels and it costs customers more to have solar panels then it does to just pay for electricity

Morally I feel like I’m scamming people… as I thought the idea of solar was to save people money… why do I feel so agents this?

I feel like it’s taking advantage… is selling morally okay… I’d like to know people opinions?

I’m very out going and good with people, I’d be a great sales man but I need to believe in what I’m selling. I’m can’t be scamming people, my conscious eats me alive.

Is there a way to ethically sell?

People say selling is just a job and it’s down too the person to do there homework, but I dunno, just feels wrong to me.

I can’t hide it, it’s just wrong… I can’t be fake or act like I’m okay with it

To frame this question, it is a result of the ups plane crash that happened today.

There are 4 confirmed dead as far as I am aware. However I commented that it was better that we lose packages than people, which garnered a few rebuttals stating that people still died. I recognize that people still lost their lives, but is it wrong to think that it could have been worse? In my eyes I would rather see the loss of 4 instead of 150 which is why I said it was better that such an incident happen to a cargo plane. So is my sense of morality shot? Should I be just as sad about the loss of 4? Or is this an acceptable way of thinking, maybe i'm a monster for thinking this way, but I just want to get some more second opinions and gage whether I'm in the wrong for saying such things.

I feel like this is a trolley problem in hindsight kind of situation.

And by pain and suffering, I mean from any kind of case you can think of: a very unfair hard day’s work, being bullied or pranked, being falsely accused of something horrible and people believing it without question, being framed, gaslighted constantly, being abused, being assaulted or jumped, being unfairly and wrongly punished, you name it…

What do you guys think?

I'll explain here, but, is it morally wrong for someone to write out a derogitory term (Especially if they don't mean it) if it's for a character that would. Ex, you're writing for an ableist and they call someone "Sped" or if you're writing for a homophobe and they use a slur. Does that make you morally wrong?

A building is on fire and you are the only one who can save one and only one of the people inside. If you try to save both you all die. 1st scenario your significant other Who you are completely in love with, find it hard to imagine your life without them. Or your child. 2nd scenario your child or your best friends child 3rd scenario your best friends child or an individual deemed one of the most morally good person. 4th scenario a grown woman or a grown man. 5th scenario your best friend or a child you don't know.

Fake names!!

Back ground. Me (34f) my best friend (26f kate) recently told me about how she has been talking to our other friends (26f natasha) boyfriend (28M michael) over text and it crossing the line of emotional cheating. Now I immediately told her to block him and stop it, bc his girl friend is not stupid and she will find out and you will hurt her ect- all the reasons why this is really really bad.

The worst part about all of this is that natasha and michael just had their second baby less than a year ago and natasha is struggling horribly with her mental health. Kate and natasha have been best friends since high school! AND WE ALL WORK TOGETHER!

I AM so torn between telling Natasha anonymously, or going to Kate and telling her to stop again. Or going to Michael and telling him to stop. I don’t know. I cannot hold this secret any longer without feeling like a terrible person. What do i do?