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Intergalactic_Toast72 karma

Morals and ethics are different, feeling bad is not the same as being bad. Morally maybe you should feel bad about exploting a loophole if it means that loophole may be closed thus effecting others who actually needed it, ethically your statement holds up.

Intergalactic_Toast22 karma

I have been suicidal and also I would like to be immortal too so I think I can answer this one,

Just because you are suicidal doesn't mean you also dont strive to live. Suicidal thoughts are intrusive thoughts. They are often unwanted. The act of taking your life is a way out, an escape from the stressors of now. Being imortal means you could encase yourself in concreate or you know, something less crazy like waiting for cryogenic freezing and then going to sleep until theres a better world.

When you are suicidal you know there is no heaven waiting for you. Best case scenario its an off switch. Dreaming is the closest you can get to heaven in this world. You tend to cherish your dreams. If you had no need to eat or drink and didnt age you could sleep forever uninterrupted.

Intergalactic_Toast13 karma

Yeah, what this guy said effectively. Thank you for extending my reasoning I was too lazy lol.

Intergalactic_Toast4 karma

I think its going to anti appeal to a lot of people purely because of the name. I am by no means a trump suporter but I refuse to watch anything deliberately provocative. It just adds to the growing resentment of each other when we should be allies against the rich.

There is no need for us to 'get people talking' in this day and age. People are already talking, we just arent communicating. More and more black people are getting the take away that its individual white people and not a multi tiered flawed system that steps on us all that cause systemic opression.

I think if you name your film something like that hoping to capture people's attention, you will just ultimately risk tuning them out. We already have enough media telling us white people are the bad guys, we need more that tell us how to be the good guys. Not just in relation to 'not taking up space' but in ways that benefit the whole of hummanity.

E: p.s I will probably watch it still just because I know what its about and it sounds interesting, I just think its a shame others wont because black people being alive in historically white washed times is something ive always been faccinated with since morgan freeman was in robbin hood.

Intergalactic_Toast2 karma

Tldr: I know this is long but if you cannot read it in full, then you cannot hope to know my true intent. Therefore, if you cannot finish it, its better not to respond. I am not.interested in a fight

Maybe we are just tired of constantly being refered to as nazis for the fault of a handful of white people.

The rich are at fault for the most part, and the 'conversations' you have are accusatory by nature with anecdotal evidence and a general lack of understanding of systematic opression.

Rich white people are by nature opressive. It was not white farmers that sought to colonise Africa, it was merchants. And it was not england that enslaved people, it was powerful men who created the colonies. Here in england regardless of skin color relative freedom has always existed. During the time of the atlantic slave trade most people were peasents sho were indentured servants at best. Any slaves brought here were instantly freed.

There has always been a racial divide between black and white dont get me wrong, I am not so stupid as to pretend that there arent white people who see your people as lesser, but it is those people who go on to make the laws and the systems that opress you. The rest of us either do not care or want to do somthing about it.

The question then becomes, if you are then going to hate me or act agressive towards me purely because of my race, why should I help your race? I wish to help your race because youbare allies against our true enemy, but I am not going to do that of I am seen as an enemy myself.

You can appeal to my morals or my ethics or my logic. If you appeal to my morals its a case of showing me that you care for me and asking me to care for you. If you appeal to my ethics it is a case of showing me the funemental wrongs of the situation (which in this case I already know) if you appeal to my logic kts a case of showing me our enemies are the same.

The rhetoric your people currently employ is blame everybody else but yourselves. It is not your fault that powerful men took your ancestors, put them in chains and then once released underfunded the communities you were a part of and created laws against you.

It is your fault that in the days of information and technology where you can prove finally that what was done to your people was wrong on so many levels that you blame an entire race rather than the powerful men who spent years manipulating and turning us against us.

If you respond to that manipulation with agression you confirm the older generations pre existing bias and show you are just another angry black person. A threat to their way of life just as the opressors told them.

I do not care about you or your people one way or another until you find a way to make me care. It is not enough to say that you have been wronged when I too as an individual have been wronged. Humans by nature are selfish and self serving creatures. We tell ourselves we want to do the right thing, but in reality we want to do the convenient right thing.

You do not need white people to feel bad for you, you need them to feel angry at the very same system that ensalves them and tells them they are free. You do not need to shame them for a past they were never a part of, you need to enlighten them about the wrongs that they too experiance at the hands of the system.

The path to freedom for us all is and always has been unification. You cannot stop a war without first letting go of the tools of war. I am no more at fault for the actions of my race than you are. We all have bias, but our biases are individual to ourselves and you cannot hope to know mine from one look at my skin amd the idea that you can is a reflection of your own bias.

I am not your enemy unless you want me to be, but I am nlt necessarily your friend either. To me you are simply a person that I am conversing with until you give me something to care about. Your attitude towards me heavily changes wether or not I care enough to do something for you. Call me racist all you like, downvote me if it makes you feel better but that wont take down systematic opression. Only unity will.