Yeah that's the weirdest line of thinking of seen on this. "If we aren't always the ones doing evil things then we're being hypocritical!" Like we should never do the right thing because occasionally being on the right side is worse than being hypocritical? Or maybe it's that doing something wrong in the past means you should never try to do the right thing? Or maybe if someone has done something wrong in the past it's simply not possible for them to ever do something that's right? What is the logic here?

[–] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe this is part of the "don't make the good the enemy of the perfect" thing. Because we're not good in all ways it is assumed that everything we do is for evil. You see it even some of the responses to my post - that we're only providing support because it fuels our military industry profits. And to be honest, that is probably true. But like it's still doing the right thing, even if it's for the wrong reasons.