#assholes

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Feb 21 '12
Ha ha, just like a moth to a flame, if the moth is a person and the flame is another person, and the moth is making choices for reasons and not just flying blindly into a flame, and the flame has agency and chose to injure the moth, and if this simile’s purpose is not to anticipate future violence and preemptively shift blame for said violence onto the moth and away from the flame, which, again, is not a flame but a person who makes decisions and is morally culpable for those decisions.

Ha ha, just like a moth to a flame, if the moth is a person and the flame is another person, and the moth is making choices for reasons and not just flying blindly into a flame, and the flame has agency and chose to injure the moth, and if this simile’s purpose is not to anticipate future violence and preemptively shift blame for said violence onto the moth and away from the flame, which, again, is not a flame but a person who makes decisions and is morally culpable for those decisions.

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