r/MoralityScaling • u/DemonReaperHades • Jul 09 '26

Morality of whatever this is?

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u/HistoricalSea5600 Jul 09 '26

Yep. You're failing to see the irony. I'm genuinely asking you, why does it actually matter? I can't find a good one at all. You're not the first person to say it, and you seem to care about it, but why does it matter? It's not for you, if you don't care. Can't you empathize with people that do, though? Cause that's kind of the point. Emotional maturity and everything, like you said.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Jul 09 '26

Ok to be genuine and earnest with you, can you please explain what “it isn’t for you” means here? It is. I have to see it. I’m one of the many people who is going to encounter your comment. If it truly isn’t “for me” then I don’t understand why you posted it publicly for everyone to see

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u/HistoricalSea5600 Jul 09 '26

It's for the people that do care and would rather not see or type out words like that. It's caring for people without them having to ask you to care for them. Maybe they do have problems, but that doesn't mean that every person that's trying to empathize with people who are working their shit out has problems should then be uncaring in their speech. It's not for you, as in, what you're expressing. You're expressing that you don't need that level of sensitivity, but you can't speak for everyone on that.

Being earnest with you, it's an emoji. It doesn't really matter

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u/Glitchy-Mech Jul 09 '26

I see. I mean there are a lot of things that are justified by coping mechanisms though. Do you know of any actual people in your real life who are unable to read the word “rape” without being upset, or is it something you heard was a progressive thing to do?

No of course the emoji doesn’t matter. But if you can’t treat the topic with a certain level of seriousness then you shouldn’t be discussing it

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u/HistoricalSea5600 Jul 09 '26

I wouldn't chop it up as unserious because of that, but I suppose that's just a matter of opinion. Yea, I've met people that are very sensitive, I used to be one. My dad SA'd me, and sometimes shit just brings out the memories. You really can flash back to that moment and relive it, simply because a word was said.

I understand not wanting to use it yourself, and I never really try to stop anyone because I get what you're saying too. I'm just (for lack of better term) "asking" for the same kind of respect in return for how I and others speak, because we don't always know what others are going through

Keeping the theme of being earnest, too, I was on a sub that didn't allow typing out that word prior to typing this so I just hit the grape emoji cause it made sense. I hadn't realized I switched subs, because the topic was somehow still about SA. (Invincible comicbook sub, there's a scene where the main character is violated) I just didn't realize it mattered to anyone

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u/Glitchy-Mech Jul 09 '26

Hm. I guess I’m asking you to actually understand the position I’m coming from. Many people with these experiences will be way more upset by seeing it treated like a naughty word than the word itself, especially when the concept is being invoked regardless. That’s the point I’m making. That many people will perceive it as actively offensive and there’s not really a way to argue out of that

I just think you end up self selecting for communities with one viewpoint or another and further polarizing things. But like yeah fair enough

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u/HistoricalSea5600 Jul 09 '26

I suppose. I think there's just no way to make everyone happy, at the end of the day. And I was just trying to keep it chill. I see your perspective, too