• Throwaway@lemm.eeM
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    10 months ago

    Being real, hes done a lot to my mental state. On reddit, I would have similar arguments, usually about guns. I thought I was educating people, or at least getting them to actually think critically about their positions.

    Nope, I wasnt educating or doing anything good, turns out I was just wasting my time.

    Its not just him either, theres a few lefties that I’ve noticed that do the exact same shit.

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        10 months ago

        I’m very aware, and its as tempting as ice cream in hell. I get why a lot of mods go bad now. But I want to avoid being a power tripping mod, and thats why he remains unbanned.

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          10 months ago

          It’s not a power trip to remove people who do nothing but degrade the community

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            10 months ago

            It is however extremely difficult to cleanly judge whether someone is degrading a community.

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              10 months ago

              It’s only difficult when you’re part of the problem

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                10 months ago

                It’s only difficult when you are willing to recognize the difficulty in detecting someone else’s intentions.

                Equating certainty with correctness is a hallmark of fanaticism.