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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I'm just glad I decided to go full moral relativism right away back then. It was a good way to speedrun maturity, although I did maintain some kooky beliefs into early adulthood such as

"if you are not multilingual you can't be a good person, and the more languages you speak the better of a person you are"
"The Democratic party is a puppet of the Republican party, and in reality the U.S. is only pretending to be a two-party state"
"The age of consent should be 25."
"Evil people can be good functioning members of society, so we shouldn't discriminate against people who hold evil beliefs as long as they are nice to others."

It was exhausting. Opposite reason from you, there was only middle ground, no black and white allowed. But it came from the same mental place. Pride, arrogance, nieveté.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

to go full moral relativism right away

Jesus, so you still think the mature stance was "maybe Hitler wasn't morally wrong"? Bad news, you still have a lot of maturing to do. Like a fucking phenomenal amount. Just because your beliefs as a child were even more baseless doesn't mean you've moved to a sensible position.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you're going to lecture about "maturing", then maybe don't start by jumping to conclusions based on the first sentence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Actually I jumped to conclusions based on the whole comment, as it makes them seem like they consider becoming a moral relativist to be speeding through maturity.

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