[ SECRET POST #2338 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2338 ⌋

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

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02.
[Saturday Night Live]


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03.
[Homestuck]


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04.
[The Dark Knight trilogy]


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[Star Trek]


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06.
[Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert]


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07.
[Neil Gaiman/Amanda Palmer]


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08.
[Late Night Talk Shows]


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09.
[Fruits Basket]


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10.
[Defiance]


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11.
[Phoenix Legend]


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12.
[Kim Possible]


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13.
[Rupert Graves]


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14.
[Hashirama, from Naruto]


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15.
[XXXholic]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
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: Do you avoid people who like certain things?

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on what is. With something like Ayn Rand's books, there are indicators there about politics, which is something most couples need to have at basic agreement on. For me, it wouldn't be that they liked the books, it would be that we have very different political views that would keep us from having a relationship.

I don't know about avoid, though. I wouldn't avoid someone for something like that, or even refuse to be friends with them if we had several common interests. The only people I actually avoid are sexual predators, murderers and anyone who has extreme or fanatic religious/political/social views.

Re: Do you avoid people who like certain things?

[(Anonymous)]

For me, the issue with regards to Ayn Rand isn't about politics - it's more about ethics, about the fact that a lot of Rand's ethical system is completely antithetical to what I believe and what I think is important for people. It's about that Rand's ethics celebrate a lot of behaviors that I think of as wrong, and rejects most of what I think is good. And I think that's a lot more important than a political disagreement, you know? In terms of intimate partnerships, but also in terms of everyday dealings. I can get along with disagreements, even profound disagreements, about taste, politics, religion, but a person's ethical system matters and the one that Rand advocates is one that I can't abide.

And obviously not everyone who likes Rand is in it for the ethical system, but the ethical system (and the political ideology for which it is the warrant) seems to be the main thing that attracts Rand's fans.

Re: Do you avoid people who like certain things?

[manifold]

Yeah, that's the thing for me, too. Even to enjoy Rand as entertainment very much requires accepting a world view where both a person's worth is measured by financial success AND that success happens or does not happen because of their inherent worth. At best, that's an absurd wish-fulfillment fantasy. Neither personal success nor financial markets actually operate that way; the difference between a nobody who dies unknown and a billionaire often isn't that the billionaire was Just Better or Harder Working, but just that the future billionaire had the luck to be in the right place at the right time.

And when it's the reverse, that a person who has fallen on hard times deserves those hard times, that the poor and disabled deserve neither aid nor empathy—fuck that, I do not believe in a world where leaving people to die as worthless is acceptable. There are rights I believe even people I loathe should have, without question.

(In other words, I'm totally the strawman villain of the book lol)