I used to believe in extending politeness to everyone.
Covid broke me of that.
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Nah hard disagree. Extend politeness until they give you a reason not to. Then it’s fair game.
Morality is for your friends not your enemies. Make a filter for sorting the people you meet. Politeness used to be as simple filter applied to newly met individuals. Got conflated with morality and thus the filter broke. Many such cases.
You get it
I believe we’re saying the same thing 👍🏻
Being polite as a filter for who your friends are is broken. People(enemies) will use your politeness as a cudgel against you. I am saying you are running outdated software and might need to patch some parameters surrounding with whom you are being polite. An exploit has been found and running that older code leaves you vulnerable.
Not even a GM on nostr?
I have felt the exact same way and the people that deserve politeness get it and those that don’t can go away
I used to believe that people didn't act selfishly in evil ways but that they were products of their environments but now I think that's bullshit. Selfish people exist and they do fucked up shit and they are capable of anything that a human is capable of... Never assume. People assume a lot.
Fucking spot on. Some people are just evil.
Agreed...the next time "covid" happens we need to have arguments and phrases that are clearly articulated to the "enforcers". It needs to be simple, concise and definitive . And should be based on reason rooted in grammar and expressed through effecitve rhetoric.
I Suggest the following phrase: " No"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201311/the-power-no
I use to believe respecting everyone was a good guy thing.
I now believe respect needs to be earned. And there are many people I thought respect.
Covid brought me here
Same here. No longer extending politeness or kindness, just keeping to myself and letting them stay miserable 🤷♂️