• fishy@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    I get what you’re saying but agree with the other guy. Just saying brother’s ink or toner is first party instantly makes it sound like other brands are inferior. Just because you’re intelligent enough to know that’s not true doesn’t mean everyone is. If recent history has taught me anything, it’s that the average person is far less intelligent than you’d assume.

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      4 days ago

      This is the kind of stupidity that has us reinventing language constantly. Words mean what they mean. To hell with how they make you feel. BLACKLIST WHITELIST 😲 The horror!

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        3 days ago

        feelings are important, though? if i can avoid hurting someone and all it costs me is saying blocklist instead of blacklist, that seems like an obvious slam dunk

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          3 days ago

          Your feelings are yours to manage. You say why hurt someone when you can avoid it. I say why get hurt in the first place? Everyone has feelings about everything. No feeling is any more valid than any other feeling.

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            2 days ago

            so you think other people should take responsibility for something they can’t control, but you should have no responsibility for something you can control?

            you can’t stop yourself from feeling sad, but you can stop yourself from doing something that makes someone else sad

            having no concern for the feelings of others is just really irrational and selfish imo

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              1 day ago

              Emotions aren’t inherently positive or negative. It’s what you do with the emotions that has actual moral substance.

              Here, let’s look at it this way.

              I say something, and it made you sad. However, you know full well my intent was not to make you sad. Despite this, you use your sadness to guilt me about the thing. So now I feel sad that you are purposefully misinterpreting my meaning.

              I am offended that you are offended. Explain to my why my feeling is invalid and yours is valid.

              Anyone can feel bad about anything.

              “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

              I’m not saying go around purposely making people sad. I’m saying don’t make your sadness my issue.

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                1 day ago

                you’re adding way too much into this. who said that someone would guilt you? normally when you make someone sad they don’t say anything about it, they just feel a bit worse and continue with their lives

                i’m just explaining to you, there’s no way to rationalize your way out of this. you are in complete control over what you say, unless you have verbal tics. and people will understand if you accidentally say something offensive from a tic. do you not understand this? it’s just about responsibility.

                take some responsibility for what you say. that’s all.