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On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Uuuuuugh. I remember being so black and white, there wasn't any middle ground on anything. It was exhausting.

[โ€“] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm just glad I decided to go full moral relativism right away back then. It was a good way to speedrun maturity, although I did maintain some kooky beliefs into early adulthood such as

  • "if you are not multilingual you can't be a good person, and the more languages you speak the better of a person you are"
  • "The Democratic party is a puppet of the Republican party, and in reality the U.S. is only pretending to be a two-party state"
  • "The age of consent should be 25."
  • "Evil people can be good functioning members of society, so we shouldn't discriminate against people who hold evil beliefs as long as they are nice to others."

It was exhausting. Opposite reason from you, there was only middle ground, no black and white allowed. But it came from the same mental place. Pride, arrogance, nievetรฉ.

[โ€“] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Glad we grew out of it.

[โ€“] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

to go full moral relativism right away

Jesus, so you still think the mature stance was "maybe Hitler wasn't morally wrong"? Bad news, you still have a lot of maturing to do. Like a fucking phenomenal amount. Just because your beliefs as a child were even more baseless doesn't mean you've moved to a sensible position.

[โ€“] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thats not what I meant, but I can see why you read what I wrote that way. I personally think "There is no such thing as Truth" was a better place to mature away from than "I've been on this earth for 12 whole years, so I'm grown enough to know what the truth is". I also think you missed the part where I don't believe any of the moral relativism stuff anymore. My young adulthood was nearly 10 years ago, even the clooge I listed at the bottom is loooong gone.

[โ€“] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, I see what you mean, the way you wrote it made it seem like you considered the process of becoming a moral relativist to be speed running maturity. Well done for growing out of it, then.

[โ€“] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

See, this right here is why I love you folks on Hexbear. Every good-faith argument can end as a good-faith argument instead of devolving into screeching. That's pretty rare on the internet.

[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're going to lecture about "maturing", then maybe don't start by jumping to conclusions based on the first sentence.

[โ€“] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Actually I jumped to conclusions based on the whole comment, as it makes them seem like they consider becoming a moral relativist to be speeding through maturity.

[โ€“] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Quite the personality analysis from a five sentence comment.