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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
violetmadder@kolektiva.social ("Violet Madder") wrote:
In my brain, morality has a structure to it. It's rooted in certain principles, which lead to a particular logic that branches out in ways that I strive to keep coherent and sensible. Shrugging off or doing certain things can be a major warning sign to me that the structure of a person's worldview has chains of logic in it that lead to-- or, at minimum, allow-- horrible abuse. Their foundations are fucked, full of holes and unreliable shifting mush, and they're not to be trusted.
People who don't see those chains of cause and effect, the way issues knit together, are piecemealing their morality mainly based on appearances-- and mainly the appearance of adhering to the most mainstream rules, at that. It's perfunctory. The deeper moral compass, the courage to ask deep questions and confront one's own failings, strong indignation at injustice based on principles-- it's not there. They don't even understand the concept, they don't have the empathy or generosity of spirit to comprehend it.
Morality is a game to them. A show. A toy. Turn it this way and that, arrange the arguments like this, posture and prod, goalposts moving. Look, I didn't do the things that break these rules over here so you can't say I'm a bad person, so there, nyah.