compostgoblinJan 6
Satire rule
Show threadhalfsalesmanJan 6

My younger brother loves Tyler Durden quotes. One in particular “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

I’m not sure why that one jumps out at him dude makes more money than me. I do want to say though that hes genuinely a good person in most ways, hes completely surrounded by frothing at the mouth rightwingers but maintains that he is a centrist. And he says stuff that implies left wing and anarchist beliefs but constantly defends rightwing figures when I shit talk them around him.

Hes just badly propagandized and would end up being socially isolated if he started actually identifying as left wing because all of his friends wont stop talking to him. And he refuses to move and make new friends. Its depressing.

Show threadWizardofFrobozzJan 7
He is not genuinely a good person.
Show threadhalfsalesman

I think I know what you mean. He lacks “broad” compassion and is intellectually a coward. If you think those are prerequisites for being a good person, he isn’t one.

What I should have said is he is empathetic and inter-personally does what normal good people do in the immediate context of people around him, including helping strangers. Even going out of his way to do so.

Jan 7 at 2:50pmWeb