"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer ...

[juliusgoat@mastodon.social]

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." https://www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of-human-virtue/

[lednabm@stranger.social]

@JuliusGoat
Well written; however, the good versus evil framing is wrong. Oh yes, it's comforting if one considers themselves on the good side, but it doesn't change the fact that these terms are contextual. I submit that the eternal struggle is not good versus evil, as Hollywood and other billionaire influenced fools love to depict. It's truth versus illusion. We see the objective truth here. It's the need for global human rights, freedom, and democracy, not authoritarianism!

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@lednaBM @JuliusGoat I see what you're saying, but I also think that we can agree that the truth is good & being adverse to it is bad, which is just another word for evil.

The framing is objectively correct. Don't get caught up in trying to be academic about this; evil people will do an end-run around you while you mull over your arguments.