• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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    3 个月前

    if someone is stupid, and making objectively stupid decisions, it would be fair to call them “developmentally challenged” especially if that person is donald trump, and the stupid decision is tariffs.

    Would it also be fair to call him a retard? Yes.

    should you? Probably not, would it be justified, yes.

    It’s only really fucked up if you’re using it belittle and demean someone, though there are also situations where this is deserved. Morals and ethics aren’t really a solid ground to stand on, more so a floating mass of garbage in the ocean, that just sort of, showed up one day.

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        yeah, probably shouldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t though.

        Just because you probably shouldn’t yell at people, or swear at them, doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t.

        Not everything in this world is a binary, sometimes it’s situationally appropriate, sometimes it’s not, sometimes it’s in between.

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            i don’t even necessarily disagree with that argument. I just don’t think it’s really all that relevant. I’m not even sure most people would disagree with it.

            Obviously you should be nice to people, you probably shouldn’t be an asshole, and you should help them as much as possible, but like, how many of us actually do that?

            It’s sort of like telling someone who smokes, that it’s bad for them, they know, you don’t need to remind them.