Comment by whstl
11 hours ago
Of course, but just because you can throw a metaphor around doesn't make it true.
There is no "rule" in life that says that people have to be judgmental assholes to each other. Using a card game to justify the behavior is just a rationalization.
>There is no "rule" in life that says that people have to be judgmental assholes to each other.
Apparently there is, which is why this judgement you speak of happens.
It just happens to be a social rule, and you don't like it, but it's a rule nonetheless. Doesn't have to be an official rule, agreed upon, and signed by each participant, or some physical law.
Hence, the card game metaphor has some merit. Like people think you shouldn't cheat in a card game, many people also think you shouldn't cheat with cosmetic surgery.
Being judgmental assholes to each other isn't a social rule. It's in no way the expectation of behavior.
I 100% disagree. It is a minority making the noise and turning everything into life as a game.
Most people don't care, and I'm willing to bet that the ones rationalizing the behavior here don't go out of their way to care or talk about any of this.
And yet, it’s how it is.
Yes, people who judge others like this are anti-social assholes.
Of course that's not as bad as people who try to rationalize bad behavior behind a veil of pseudo-intellectuality.
Once again: rationalizations don't make something true.
>Yes, people who judge others like this are anti-social assholes
On the contrary, since many (if not most) people do it, they're on the social side.
>Once again: rationalizations don't make something true
When it comes to social truths, what most people do make them so.
If most people think X bad, X is bad is a social truth. Doens't matter if you think X is "not bad in reality". Reality doesn't care about good or bad anyway, it doesn't have a morality.
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Says the person trying to rationalize away obviously common human behavior as not existing because it is bad?
Or do you think anti-social assholes do not exist or are not common? Or that any system of identification of people should not attempt to understand them?
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