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Old 12-19-2018, 01:47 PM   #571 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by [MERIT] View Post
When you can't do anything about it, it's not immoral to live one's life.

Say you throw your $5 into the charity bucket the next time you go out. How long will it take that $5 to be transformed into something that will save a life? How much of it will actually go to the people in need?
How do you know you can't do anything about it? How hard have you checked?

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Until I see you selling all of your material goods and giving the money to charity, you can fuck off with the moral guilt trip.
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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg View Post
Yeah this is the point. This is what basically all people do and it's not justifiable. I mean I just spent $16 on a hundred each of plastic bags and cardboard backs for a ****load of comics that have been sitting in a pile unread for like two years. How is that okay when somebody is currently hungry?
I'm not judging you for not doing more, I'm pointing out that your logic is flawed and you should at the very least accept that how we're both living our lives is not morally justifiable.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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