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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I mean, it’s a reasonable place to start at the very least?

    We’re talking about pickpockets, right?

    Someone tried to pickpocket me in Europe on the train. I blocked the door and, despite having no common language, I left them know I was aware they had taken my stuff. I’m pretty sure they understood it was my intention to get it back and that was going to be a hassle for everyone.

    They just handed it back and left.

    Should I have just started swinging?


  • I get it, but it has to be obvious how quickly this logic can spiral, though.

    If I come around a corner and find you putting the boots to someone begging you to stop, you’re getting smoked by the biggest thing I can find. I don’t know the context. Violence to stop violence is measured.

    Being wronged isn’t a carte blanche. As soon as you introduce violence, suddenly violence actually becomes the measured response against YOU.



  • Yes, we can accept that we’re all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

    Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

    I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

    I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It’s downright offensive.