[ SECRET POST #3489 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3489 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

On one hand I totally understand why there's really no scenario where it's an awesome idea. I mean even really awesome people have had that one REALLY terrible opinion.

On the other, the idea of a world where someone can't shoot an unarmed black man laying on the ground and then defend themselves with "No no, we weren't aiming to maim the black guy, we were aiming to kill the autistic guy!" is.... really appealing. Or a world where people can't rape. Or any of that. Just being able to wave a wand and make people stop being horrible.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. Magic would be amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not how it works though. Any attempt to force people to "stop being horrible" immediately becomes...horrible itself. You change things by working together to teach people better ( for example, start training the police to be less racist and how to recognize better when they are actually being threatened vs dealing with a perp who is terrified of them or doesn't understand the situation) the minute you try to mind control people into being better, you have defeated your own goal.

An inalienable right all of humanity has, is the right to sovereignty over our own brains.

Besides, I know you're thinking of stuff like rape and murder, the really obvious crimes anyone with half a sense of human decency agrees are wrong. But who says it would stop there?

I know a lot of people (especially young people on Tumblr) who are trying so hard to be the best person possible, to embrace passionate empathy, to speak up for the voiceless- but they think of themselves as morally unassailable because they endorse all the correct things. And they begin to develop this stark, black and white morality in which any tiny human mistake is seen as the tip of the iceberg of terrible crimes, and that means they must show no mercy to anyone who fails to one hundred percent condemn the small difference in opinion which is just the slippery slope to you being The Worst. For example, they feel strong empathy toward rape survivors. So they get upset when they see a fanfic depicting rape of a hero by a bad guy. And they decide "since rape is bad, anyone who talks about it without preceding the fic with three paragraphs of detailed trigger warnings, apologies and explanations that they do not endorse rape, must be writing it because they think rape is fun. And since the villain is part of an organization founded by a Nazi, then the writer must be a fan of Nazis, they wouldn't bring up both Nazis and rape unless they were into both." So then the author of the fic gets a note in their inbox, "Kill Yourself, NAZI RAPE FETISH WHORE".

So, what I'm saying is, some of the people who are trying the hardest to be good end up horrible because they give up their humanity before they ever get there. And I know this because I grew up in the conservative evangelical movement (with many fundamentalist friends). And my dad was on staff, so I learned *everyone's* ugly secrets.

Everybody has at least one awful thing about them which makes them unfit to have their finger on a button that controls other people's minds.

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Who decides where the line is drawn? Who would you trust with that sort of ultimate control over the entire planet?

[(Anonymous)]

Gee, it's almost like you only read the last few words and completely ignored the first part that said that it was impossible and would inevitably turn out horrific.

I'm going to add 'reading comprehension' to my magic wand wishlist.