Part of the reason I have increasingly become less of a social justice warrior is the influence on me by Christians of a CS Lewis nature.
“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
This lead me to kinship with many wildly different people. However, there are dangers out there and some of it is just how on others influence my unhealthy behaviors. I need to avoid some people, because we influence each other in a toxic way, but it’s not really a problem of malevolence between us. My point is my healthy friends have taught me how to look at my own issues to a far greater degree. When I see my own character defects in others, it’s often a caricature of myself that are typically the most difficult to lay witness too. The social topics we tend to identify with ideologically say a lot about how we see ourselves. Look strongly at what you find motivates your online actions, and you’ll generally find a flaw internally one is overcompensating for. I do the some people simply need to let their guilt go and focus on pride and moving forward. My friends have most importantly taught me that.
My wife is teaching me self discipline, strength, motivation, sacrifice, and restraint. I don’t underappreciate the aspect that she has a compassionate heart. I think she has more pride in her outlook on others, but with a harmonic aspect of having far less self interest in reward and pleasure seeking than most. More to it, she works hard because of the people she loves. I suppose we all to the latter to some extend. I’m more selfish though, honestly, or at least impulsive, but I have an udder lack of desire to judge others. I reserve that internally for the sadistic. She is a love that balances me so well.
I’m trying to be more subtle than I used to be as well. It’s honestly more effective, especially when I can relate to the problems people of a different mentality and jargon often speak. Some people have taken a long time to learn to work with and most of that is on me to progress on. I have learned there is a time to communicate with cliche’s memes and allegory. All I can say is that sometimes, I’m smart enough to keep my mouth shut like my wife tends to do, and get to working on what needs done. Sometimes, I do the right thing. That is morality. Ethics is just people bickering non-sense about what ‘they’ should do, honestly. I’m still learning to focus on myself. That leaves limited room for much social criticism. It really does usually require a sadistic component for me to really find evil.
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