People are so incredibly mean to this woman because she actually had to live through the consequences of their favourite theocracy and didn’t say it was epic wholesome chungus.
“Your followers won’t see your tweets, Mr. Bond. But they will see what you rt from other accounts, and you will watch their likes accumulate in your mentions, while your own effortpoasts wither and fade, revealed for what they are: coal”
It is a little strange how many Christians respond significantly more viciously to those who choose to abort a down syndrome child as compared to a normal one. Obviously neither is justified but one can understand why the former situation is more difficult for the parents.
Nietzsche was absolutely correct when he pointed out that many modern Christians have turned the real obligation to care for the sick, poor, disabled, etc, into a quasi-veneration or idealization of those traits. But in reality there’s no virtue in weakness or helplessness. The real Christian path is to strive to maximize one’s human potential, cultivating strength, vitality, agency etc, while still acting justly to protect the weak and the vulnerable. Neopagans and atheists calling to abort down syndrome children neglect the latter, while many modern Christians, in their bizarre virtue signalings about the joys of a genetic disorder, reject the former.
"Buy, borrow, die" is a neat theory for wealthy tax avoidance, but research shows that rich people don't actually use it.
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The idea that you can talk shit with no possible physical consequence has been the "law" for a long time.
But few really believed it or acted that way, it wasn't the social norm, there was some honor culture left.
Actually internalizing this expectation is very new.