thegodslayer wrote:
Aestu wrote:
No, he sat down with all that stuff, chomping on a ham sandwich, and displaced me. I took this all in, that formed in my mind, I hesitated, then said it, and then he reacted by stopping eating and clamping the container shut.
You always have a rebuttal, regardless of your method you shouldn't judge others as you do. You are no better than other just as others are no better than you. Regardless of wit, self worth or actions.
You may save 10 lives yes that makes you a hero but that doesn't make your life any more valuable or worthy than that of a bum you see countless times on your way to work talking to himself.
In the grand scheme of things you are 1 life, and he is 1 life. How you choose to live it can make you a good person doesn't change the fact that each person is equal to another.
My point is, regardless of how many different ways you want to beat around the bush, you were repulsed by the look of him the way he sat down and accidentally brushed the almighty Aestu. How could this man, this fat man do that. And then you proceeded to insult him in a way you figured might hurt most.
You didn't help him, no matter how you want to spin it.
It wasn't intended as a rhetorical rebuttal, just a clarification of events. A life is a life but what gives it value is what one does with it. Again, I don't believe anyone really believes all lives have the same worth. You can't claim you or anyone else really treats a bum like a guy with a home and job. You can't claim you wouldn't defer to your brother over some random person. You can't claim you take everything that anyone says or does at face value regardless of reputation or background. Again, that's unreal.
This is a major difference in my values from most people, and ironically, it's part of how I was raised. I believe that it is more just to make an effort to judge others rationally than to not judge at all. Part of what my parents did was make me a very critical person. When I was little and I asked a question about something, they would say, "Go look it up." "Can't you just tell me?" "No, go to the bookshelf and look it up." "Forget it." "Do you want to stay stupid?"
"Ethan, never forget - if you have lost everything, if your family, your home, your money, your country, is all gone, what do you still have? You have your mind. So you must develop that. Because it is all you really have."
quadtard wrote:
Have fun, kick back and let it all go.
That is not in my nature. I might as well try to fly by flapping my arms.