Selfishness vs Selflessness

[DBTrek]

Ah, I see - personal decisions are a “shade of gray”, and it’s not easy assigning responsibility for them.

Leftists.

All choices are assumed to be fully informed and made without influence.

Neocons.

Ah, of course. People aren’t responsible for their own choices if their decisions are less than 100% informed or directed by any kind of influence.

Apex irresponsibility justified by SF.
“It’s not totally my fault, I was only 98% informed”
“Don’t blame me, my actions were a result of influence”

“Helplessness, a grown man’s guide to being useless,” the SF TED talk coming to a homeless shelter near you.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Ah, I see - personal decisions are a “shade of gray”, and it’s not easy assigning responsibility for them.

Leftists.

All choices are assumed to be fully informed and made without influence.

Neocons.

Ah, of course. People aren’t responsible for their own choices if their decisions are less than 100% informed or directed by any kind of influence.

Apex irresponsibility justified by SF.
“It’s not totally my fault, I was only 98% informed”
“Don’t blame me, my actions were a result of influence”

“Helplessness, a grown man’s guide to being useless,” the SF TED talk coming to a homeless shelter near you.

“Why you chose to support GMOs and Infinite War - a guide to blaming yourself”.
Sponsored by the Department of the Interior and the George Orwell society.

[DBTrek]

Please, don’t bother posting. You clearly aren’t responsible for your own words, and it’s unfair to expect others to reply to posts driven by random influence and less than complete information. Respect the time of actual human beings.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's not my fault I fucked that other woman. This genetically-modified corn in my breakfast cereal really does something weird to me.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Despite what you may think, you chose to invade the world, citizen. We are but your humble servants, enacting the will of the people. You didn’t know it, but you wanted to bail out the banks, and you demanded that we subsidize food substitutes. All as you directed. Now if you want something different, please remember to cast a vote for one of our 2 approved options.

War is Peace”

[Kath]

Cheating doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Dr. Y doesn't blame her, yet you feel pretty confident that this is her fault. lol.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Cheating doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Dr. Y doesn't blame her, yet you feel pretty confident that this is her fault. lol.

Not a statement that I ever made, or would support.

[DBTrek]

Cheating doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Dr. Y doesn't blame her, yet you feel pretty confident that this is her fault. lol.

Not a statement that I ever made, or would support.

As predicted, SF isn’t responsible for his own statements.
He just said she wasn’t blameless - not that she was partially to blame ... or something. It’s a gray area. He doesn’t have all the information. Those words were influenced. Not his fault.

Leftists.

[DrYouth]

My wife doesn’t take any blame for my cheating and I don’t assign her any.
And yet she is finding room to grow as a person through this ordeal.
So most certainly she is an extraordinary person... but then she always was.
I on the other hand was a cheating slime ball... and yet I also am growing through this experience...
So weirdly in the end we both win.
But if I could take back the cheating, I would.
There are better ways to grow in this world than hurting the people we love.

[DrYouth]

I’m just gonna throw this out there...
It seems that in general we are way too quick to allow those who cheat to be granted victim status. “Your partner must have been a cold fish bro/sista!”
STA has always warned against this with women who cheat. But obviously men who cheat are no different. Men cheating is obviously nothing new... women cheating isn’t really either but women were stoned for this traditionally... Liberty seems to mean carte blanche for everyone. This might be a step forward when it comes to removing the double standard... but is it actually progress? Equal opportunity stoning FTW?