if you're depressed about the state of the world right now

or you're too numb to be able to feel anything at all

it means you have a moral compass. hold on to that.

people who are cheerfully going about business as usual right now, terrify us

@ireneista I'm quickly finding out some folks have no definitive personal red lines.

@PhoenixSerenity the thing about red lines

you have to decide them IN ADVANCE

it barely matters what they are, because they'll be crossed instantaneously no matter how absurd you try to make them

it matters that you go through the moral reasoning and the practical planning for what could happen, why that would be bad, and what you will do about it

before you are inundated with rhetoric from every direction about why the thing that just happened is okay, actually

@ireneista That's exactly it. It's been disappointing to find out some folks that I've been familiar with for years have no definitive red lines.