• melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    responsibility to yourself is not socially important. responsibility to others, and their ability to hate you for failing, comes off as much more substantial. bonus points if they aren’t someone who can be reached to explain something to, effectively beyond the reach of someone making an argument.

    this echoes nothing else terrible in our culture, and I’m not sure whether it’s the vulnerability to this reasoning or the institutions based on it that came first.