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Ro's avatar
Mar 4Edited

If you’re doing it for justice or to defend the defenseless, etc. I don’t think it falls into the ‘asshole’ category, does it? Assholes believe they are better than other people. You would be defending people from assholes.

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Mike Brock's avatar

Well, it turns out, that I do often think I am better than the people I would morally condemn. Because isn't that, after all, the point?

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Ro's avatar

Yes, being value. I thought assholes behave as assholes because they disregard the basic worth of other people—their asshole behavior is based on the idea they matter in the world, others do not matter.

Usually, they have the view that they are intrinsically better than other people, that some people are naturally superior to others, and they are those people.

We usually have to be a pain in the ass to defend other people or justice—but I wouldn’t call that ‘assholery.’

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