[ SECRET POST #3035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[(Anonymous)]

don't know what to tell you than other than idolizing other people

they're never going live up to your unrealistic expectations

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[(Anonymous)]

*stop idolizing

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[dreemyweird]

do people just not read the first paragraph at all or

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[(Anonymous)]

the last one overrides it

if you didn't idolize him or were able to separate work from creator, this wouldn't be that big of a deal

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[dreemyweird]

Um, sorry, I think I was in so much turmoil that I failed to make it clear that I don't start disliking works once I start disliking their creators. I'm perfectly capable of seeing literary beauty in a brilliantly written text, even if its author is a dick.

But I'm never passionate about these texts as much as I am passionate about those whose authors I love. I'm basically only an active fan of the works whose creators I consider essentially good people. I think it's reasonable and doesn't have anything to do with my -idolizing- these authors? It's just the way my literary experience works.

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[(Anonymous)]

No one is an essentially good person, though.

Everyone is capable of doing terrible shit. Even the nicest people are capable of doing terrible things.

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[(Anonymous)]

da

Pretty much this, as awful as it sounds. Does that excuse people from doing terrible things? No. Whether or not they're punished for doing terrible things, that's a separate argument. Which involves a thorny discussion as to the nature of forgiveness and repentance, which may not even apply in this situation. Basically, you forgive the people who did terrible things, not to give them an advantage, but to give YOU the advantage, to let go of it. Much easier said than done. Whether or not the people who did terrible things truly repent, by changing their lives and seeking to redress the wrongs they have committed, is completely irrelevant to whether or not you forgive them.

TL;DR: Humans are fallible, and some are way more fallible than others. Looking past/beyond that fallibility improves your own outlook, not theirs.

Re: f!s, I need some perspective :( (Arthur Conan Doyle drama)

[dreemyweird]

I agree with that. But it's one thing to be capable of something terrible, and quite another to have actually done it.