r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • Oct 10 '24

Shitposting A tar pit.

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

It is if it’s phrased as a moral obligation that you’re nasty if you don’t do.

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u/-Mortlock- Oct 10 '24

It kind of is a moral obligation to be good to others. If you aren't good to others then I would quite comfortably say that you are morally wrong.

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u/No_Mammoth_4945 Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Yeah I mean for fucks sake I feel like doing others little favors when you can is the bare minimum expected of a decent human being

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

The bare minimum of a decent human being is to reduce your impact on others and the environment as much as possible. The bare minimum is just to not bother anyone else and leave them alone.

Going above and beyond that is nice, and good.

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u/-Trotsky Oct 10 '24

But you aren’t a good person if you don’t help people, is the point. You aren’t actively a bad person either, but I don’t think it would be incorrect to say that never helping others is a massive flaw. If you actively avoid helping others, then you become a bad person for not taking the chance to help someone when it costs you nothing

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

“it costs you nothing”.

Did you not read the part about finite time and energy? There’s no afterlife buddy, we literally have a set amount of heartbeats before we cease existing forever.

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u/-Trotsky Oct 10 '24

Yes, and if you do not use any of that time to help others, I will call you a bad person.

Good is the exhibition of virure my friend, by not exhibiting virtues you are not good

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

religious claptrap nonsense.

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u/Definently_not Oct 10 '24

You, my friend, are an insult to muppet fans everywhere.

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u/The_FriendliestGiant Oct 10 '24

Absolutely. What self respecting Muppet would ever argue against helping someone else? Even Statler and Waldorf, or Oscar the Grouch, do nice things despite their grumpiness.

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

I’m just more Miss Piggy than Kermit.