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   Tilton Raccoon (tilton@raccoon.zone)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 02:03:25 JST Tilton Raccoon

   There's a certain brand of leftism that insists you can't enjoy anything as long as anyone anywhere is suffering. You can't live like that, though, you'll burn out and you won't actually help anyone. If you want to help people, you need to help them find some joy in this bitter world, no matter how small, and you can't do that if you won't let yourself experience any either.

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     Kenny Kravitz (kennykravitz@mindly.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 10:26:52 JST Kenny Kravitz

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     @tilton Reminds me of a related point once made by the late Iain Banks:

     "Refusing to do a finite amount of good because one cannot do an infinite amount of good is a morally perverse position."