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#82> The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.
I am going to be uncivil but I hope the odds beat you.
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#83Thank you. I am hearing some things I needed to hear and I assume others are as well. I wish you the best of luck with your surgery and the road ahead. If I may, I've found that people who spend time wondering if they are a "good person" or not are some of the best people. You'd be surprised how many people never take time for introspection at all.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to assume that you can only have a meaning to life if there is an afterlife. Most people judge themselves against a narrative that matters to them. Most people do not want to cast themselves as a villain in their story. You may ask "but what does it matter if we are all dirt". It matters to them, even if there is no godlike perspective above it all. To be honest, I'm not actually sure why having an afterlife…
> Most people judge themselves against a narrative that matters to them. Most people do not want to cast themselves as a villain in their story. This is a reasonably assertion as far as it goes. At the risk of being a dripping faucet, I'm poking at "Why?", given an inevitable return to the dust from which all came.
What's wrong with "because of social and evolutionary pressure"?
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#85> 3. Ethics matter.
You are still not caring about ethics. You can fix the problem, you can expose the people responsible for this, you can contact the person and explain to them what you all did. That is a way to start to atone for the mistakes, but does not look like that is what you want to do, you want to fix things in your mind, not what you broke.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you should just "get over it". Because for as long as we are capable of caring, we should care that other people have to live with the consequences of our actions.
> we should care... But that's my question: if there is no afterlife, why?
for one, it is just rhetorical, nobody knows if there is really no afterlife. Every bad you did might be a Jira ticket in hell now.
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#87> The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much. I am going to be uncivil but I hope the odds beat you.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most people judge themselves against a narrative that matters to them. Most people do not want to cast themselves as a villain in their story. This is a reasonably assertion as far as it goes. At the risk of being a dripping faucet, I'm poking at "Why?", given an inevitable return to the dust from which all came.
What's wrong with "because of social and evolutionary pressure"?
"Evolitionary" implies some direction and execution scope, does it not?
Possibly I'm guilty of over-reading the word.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
When friends and family and acquaintances think of your name after you are gone, will they miss you? Then congratulations, you probably lived a good life and contributed in positive ways to humanity. I guess the question is: Do you want your time here to have impacted others in a positive way or not?
> Then congratulations, you probably lived a good life and contributed in positive ways to humanity. This seems thin gruel.
Sorry you feel that way.
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#90Why is this flagged?