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Words matter.
Always use simple direct language.
- Help the poor
- Healthcare for everyone
- Good treatment at work.
Don't use complex words.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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I'm not. I much rather he lived forever. Forever wasting away, seeing his loved ones perish, losing his sanity little by ever so fucking little, inhabiting a hell all of his own.
I don't think it's healthy to dehumanize our villains. He probably had loved ones. You don't need to be a monster to do monstrous things. All humans have that capability within, you and me included.
It's like that famous answer to "what stops you from murdering and raping?" “Nothing, I rape and murder as much as I want, which is zero."
I agree. We shouldn't demonize our opponents.
Humans can be monsters, but there are different kinds of monsters too. One special group is the psychopaths.
I believe Regan was one, and I think he saw relationships as transactional.
OK, maybe he wasn't, let's assume. But he gladly saw to massive swathes of destruction of American people because he did not see them as humans. If someone can be that callous with human lives, I can think and call him a monster. Because, how can you tell the difference?