I think filling the top ranks of our education system with people who got there in part by abusing a system designed to help disabled people will select morally deficient people for leadership positions in our society and is worth taking steps to avoid bsky.app/profile/padr...

All joking aside, the fundamental flaw with some people's view of politics is that no bad result is ever the fault of the bad actor who did it. It's always the fault of every other actor who "failed to stop them". The obvious drawbacks to this way of thinking are somehow obscured to its adherents.

You can devise solutions for individual incentives, for corruption, for power balancing, but if it is the People themselves who are corrupt...you can't fix that.

The only solution I see is for the People to relearn the virtue of not touching the stove by virtue of stove-touching.

but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.

Children’s books in particular should be weird and challenging and inappropriate. All the best ones are.

That's the thing about criticism. It teaches you about yourself. What you value, how you feel about certain things, what in a piece of art matters to *you,* specifically.

And the more you do it, the better you understand yourself. It teaches you who you are and what you believe.

One of the best things you can learn to say is "I don't know" or "I haven't tried it." Remain curious and open and make sure your opinions are *yours.*

That's really hard to do in a world designed to tell you how to feel about everything, but goddamn is it crucial to like... being a person.

Just for completeness sake, the now correctly named “reverse bors” is when someone says they hate capitalism but actually reveals they just hate living in a society with responsibilities to other people