[ SECRET POST #2992 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2992 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Grand Theft Auto 5]


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03.
[Zipang]


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04.
[Ricky Gervais]


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05.
[Tokyo Babylon/X1999]


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06.
[Dexter]


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07.
[The Mentalist]


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08.
[The Truth - Terry Pratchett]


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09.
[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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10.
[Douglas Adams]


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11.
[Black Books]


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12.
[Lucky Star]


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13.
[Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey]


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14.
[Ga-In, Brown Eyed Girls]


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15.
[Oz the Great and Powerful]


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16.
[Colin Baker]


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17.
[9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]


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18.
[Yatterman Night]


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19.
[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]


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20.
[Blake's 7]


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21.
[Game Grumps]


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22.
[Alexis Denisof]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 170 secrets from Secret Submission Post #428.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Moral dilemmas

[raspberryrain]

That's understandable, but you may be working from distorted information. This sounds like how a young person might see things, simplistically.

It's even a common tool of those who want to continue oppression or abuse to insist that it's actually useful and even necessary.

In avowedly capitalist countries, this can take the form of insisting that capitalism is necessary, welfare is bad, and everything we love comes from corporations.

In ostensibly democratic-socialist countries, it can be distorted into how awesome the workers of the nation are and how the Party and the Army are saving us all from a horrible fate, etc.

I get what you're saying about chocolate. That industry is messed up. I think it's worth seeing if it can be reformed.

Re: Moral dilemmas

[(Anonymous)]

See, this isn't a question of the morality of the actions themselves but of the people who committed those actions.

People who would have lived in a world that didn't have all of our comforts (and is a world where slavery continues to exist when it is so much more within our power to stop it).

And can I judge those people when I wouldn't be willing to change what happened in the past if it meant risking that we might lose some technological/medical development?

I just feel like a hypocrite for judging them.

Are the things they did terrible? Yes. Are they terrible people? Maybe. But if they are then I think I'm probably worse.

Re: Moral dilemmas

[dethtoll]

I think it may be worth considering that values were extremely different back then. Obviously by today's standards, much of what went on in the world in historical times is downright barbaric, but they simply didn't believe they were doing anything wrong. If they did, I doubt they'd actually have done it, because I do believe that people are generally good (if only because good is the path of least resistance) and behave according to the standards of their time and society. That we recognize that things like slavery and such are evil acts now reflects more on us and how we've progressed as a society (indeed, as a species) than on those who practiced it in times of yore.

Re: Moral dilemmas

[raspberryrain]

Well, judging others' behavior to label them as good or evil persons is less morally useful and less important than judging your own behavior so as not to do evil in the future.

"Hate the sin, not the sinner," I guess.