forgiveness or accountability

infspire
I put kyonko on block for three years.
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17:39 infspire
Reason: Invalid emotional pattern.
T1m0
infspire: can't blame ya
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T1m0: During the Trump era I came to understanding how pernicious mental health dysfunction is, as it was publicly destroying our republic at the most critical time in human history vis-a-vis climate change.
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During those several years, I slowly modified into a zero-tolerance policy for sufficient mental dysfunction.
17:41 T1m0
infspire: agree
T1m0
infspire: what if you can help ppl tho
T1m0
I like obscure words, it means I can add to my vocab
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T1m0: Well, we can definitely help damaged people, but there's a cost of course. I'm not willing to pay that cost.
T1m0
infspire: I'm selective, doing my little bit where I can, when
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I am thinking at the species/ecosystem level and I don't have sufficient mental resources to do that while maintaining my mental state and spending time on people who type "lol" in response to stimuluses they've not yet encountered.
T1m0
sometimes the experiment fails, sometimes not
infspire
With people I have more history with I am less harsh in my policies.
infspire
Though, I recently put a sibling on ten-year block.
T1m0
that's a story
infspire
They expressed, for the 37th time, some major falsehoods on COVID-19 -- after it has killed ~1,050,000 Americans as of a week ago.
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What is the value of a human life when it is as wrong as you can be on the most important topic in the American experience in the last number of years?
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Essentially, that person is likely likely to be grossly wrong on everything they say on every topic.
infspire
To be that wrong you have to actively seek out poison and actively avoid medicine.
infspire
There is a teaching by Buddha about three types of people -- one of the types is not responsive to medicine and those should be left alone.
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Something like 1) those who are correct without correction, 2) those who are wrong but receive correction, and 3) those who are wrong and do not receive correction.
kordo
Waddup Boostcube
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/45zwf7/the_three_types_of_sick_people/
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§6. "There are these three types of sick people to be found existing in the world. Which three?
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"There is the case of the sick person who — regardless of whether he does or does not receive amenable food, regardless of whether he does or does not receive amenable medicine, regardless of whether he does or does not receive proper nursing — will not recover from that illness. There is the case of the sick person who — regardless of whether he does or does not receive amenable food, regardless of whether
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he does or does not receive amenable medicine, regardless of whether he does or does not receive proper nursing — will recover from that illness. There is the case of the sick person who will recover from that illness if he receives amenable food, amenable medicine, & proper nursing, but not if he doesn't.
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It continues from there.
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T1m0: I also think humans are pathologically human-centered.
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I generally dislike the human experience.
T1m0
infspire: ignore is my friend, providing a necessary filter to block out the rants of the asylum of irc
infspire
I much prefer the company of non-humans -- I think they're generally superior beings.
kordo
Good Skycrime
T1m0
infspire: for me, it just depends on the human.
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infspire
For sure, but the general human condition is one of profound delusion.
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I find the gap between humans and non-humans to be relatively small, and a lot of human cultures think they're children of UniverseCreator.
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The smarter humans get the less of a gap they seem to think there is between humans and non-humans.
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I was musing about that the other day.
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T1m0
infspire: the problem with humans is our elaborated cognition relative to other animals but which has so many dysfunctions precisely because of that elaboration. On the other hand, when used just right... great things can happen