[bunniey]

I have been asked by multiple people what my thoughts are on the drama of recent days, as I've more or less been "riding the fence" so to speak, because every recent issue is actual a much more deep-seated moral issue, and an issue of priorities than I care to get into. It's not as black and white as is pretended by most who are all for or all against one thing or another. You can hate what Jack said, and also hate that Goose got in trouble for what some might view as innocuous. You can want Goose perma'd while also thinking Kaiwan was in the wrong as well, though not as much as Dan, of course. It's all multi-faceted, and more complex than "the group of people that agree with me more often is right, and the rest are wrong" which is how it feels some are portraying these issues, to the point where they're outwardly causing further problems to antagonize those who they see as an opposition to their views, when in reality they probably agree over a great many things, it's just the few things that they don't.

And we, of course, can't forget about bias, which at some point people just need to recognize is there. Bias exists, and most find it hard to help it. When you have feelings for someone, good or bad, it will influence your entire through process about anything they might be involved in, to the point where you don't even realize you're thinking of something differently than you usually would be. When you go to bat for someone, you don't actively think of what they might be doing wrong, even if you're telling self you are, because that bond you have with someone is rooted much further than your conscious mind. It's okay to have a bias, just try to understand what that means and make sure it's known, and still try to use logic.

Similarly, a lot of people throw hypocrisy around. Of course people are going to be hypocrites about many things. We live in a society overly inundated with information, where we do something different every single day. The amount of things the average person does in their life that differs from everything else they have done, versus that of someone a hundred years ago is insane. We have the ability to do something different every couple of seconds and that can go on forever. So of course some actions and thoughts and opinions will overlap in ways that seem, or are, hypocritical. We're ever-evolving creatures who have quite literally more information than is possible to keep straight going through our minds and past our eyes constantly. We can hear one sentence that seems to be completely random that can completely change a worldview and we might not know it for years, just because of the vast amount of information we have to sift through and process.

All this is to say, I have a proposal. Not as much of an exchange, no give and takes here, but an overwhelming desire as someone who both loves and loathes every facet of the recent dramas. Hit the reset button. Let it all go back to square one. No grudges, for the most part (obviously a few can't go back because of direct personal affronts, but maybe even they can, who knows). Because everyone is a bitter, hypocritical, bias, venomous little human just as much as most everyone is filled with thought and care for each other. Most things people do are from a good place, I'll always believe that. Your perspectives, and the way you grow up just make one person's good another person's bad, and that's something to be talked about, not met with obstinance. Let it go, realize someone has a different view than you and just talk to them about it, you might learn something.

also something about eating irish children to stave off hunger