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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

They lack humanity.

If they lack humanity, why doesn't it make a right?

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

True.

Demons don't.

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hurt people hurt people. I don’t know how to fix things. But if we go around destroying one another, what will be left?

I think the system is immoral. It should be abolished. An absurd takeaway from that would be “health insurance workers should be jailed.”

I find it challenging to say our humanity is through being inhuman to one another. Wouldn’t our humanity need to come from humane action?

I’m as upset as everyone else about these machinations. Everyone is a child of someone. If we don’t remember that, all is lost.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Front line worker: "I have no moral culpability, I'm just doing what my manager tells me to."

Manager: "I have no moral culpability, I just do what the executives tell me to."

Executives: "I have no moral culpability, I just maximize shareholder value."

Shareholders: "All I did was buy an index fund in my 401k. Why you trying to pin this on me?"

186 people murdered by the health insurance companies every day, yet somehow not a single human being involved has any moral culpability.

This is why Luigi did nothing wrong. If there is one person who has moral culpability, it's the CEO. They justify their obscene salaries by taking credit for a company's performance. They can accept the moral culpability as well.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 year ago

It didn't fly at Nuremberg, yet it flies in capitalistic societies who demanded retribution at Nuremberg. Go figure.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We are limited by our material conditions.

It sure would be nice if all hurt people could be safely rehabilitated and reeducated so they stop hurting people. That's not feasible at the moment, though.

The next best thing is just making sure they can never hurt anyone ever again, until we can build that society where no one ever gets hurt ever again.