prezmacd on Nostr: #Fiction is not the same as “not real.” Take a work of Shakespeare for example. ...
#Fiction is not the same as “not real.”
Take a work of Shakespeare for example. Is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ real? Maybe that particular set of people aren’t members of biological history. However, the fact that you even know what I am talking about - a play written in the 1590s - is evidence that it might be more real than other things. Consider the multitude of people, across time, that have been affected by that particular story. In order to touch the lives of so many, it has to be real.
#Good is not the same as “harmless” or whatever other descriptor that people use to characterize what it is to be good.
As someone who has children, I would not be a good parent if I were unable to actually protect them - meaning, beyond them simply believing I can. This is just one example, but it captures my point. A better view of good would be something like “capable of great and terrible things, if and when it is necessary, but not otherwise.”
#rejectbullshit #pleasefuckingthink
Take a work of Shakespeare for example. Is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ real? Maybe that particular set of people aren’t members of biological history. However, the fact that you even know what I am talking about - a play written in the 1590s - is evidence that it might be more real than other things. Consider the multitude of people, across time, that have been affected by that particular story. In order to touch the lives of so many, it has to be real.
#Good is not the same as “harmless” or whatever other descriptor that people use to characterize what it is to be good.
As someone who has children, I would not be a good parent if I were unable to actually protect them - meaning, beyond them simply believing I can. This is just one example, but it captures my point. A better view of good would be something like “capable of great and terrible things, if and when it is necessary, but not otherwise.”
#rejectbullshit #pleasefuckingthink