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   🏞:usasos: (daveflater@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 05:41:56 JST 🏞:usasos:

   • Inspirational Skeletor💀

   Inspirational Skeletor @skeletor poses a riddle today with "there is no righteous path."

   There is a fatalistic interpretation that comes in times of war: every side is bad guys and nobody escapes with their morals intact. But that is not inspirational.

   There is the interpretation that Duck Duck Go finds. It's a reference to Supernatural, a TV series. Castiel: "Now I realize that there is no righteous path. It's just people trying to do their best in a world where it's far too easy to do your worst." Fair enough.

   I would elaborate: there is no predetermined plan, no deterministic set of rules, that will ensure that you are always doing the right thing. No law, no priest, no holy book, no influencer can give you a recipe that will keep you on the right side of history. You cannot get there by following someone else. A sense of what is right must be cultivated within yourself, given regular feedings, and allowed to grow with you for as long as you live. If you make the right choices along the way, the path will look righteous in hindsight.

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     Inspirational Skeletor💀 (skeletor@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 05:41:55 JST Inspirational Skeletor💀

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     Epic Null (epic_null@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 05:41:56 JST Epic Null

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     • Inspirational Skeletor💀

     @DaveFlater @skeletor I think it would be best to be mindful of the source here. Inspirational Skeletor has a particular type of post they trend towards.

     I would say they trend towards "It is tough, but I persist and emrace, and it is worth it". In other words - inspirational.

     From that lense, I propose a meaning that is similar to what you suggested, but with less of a "You can't follow in other's footsteps" vibe, but more of a "Don't worry about getting it right" vibe.

     There is no higher authority dictating how things must be done - only us with a sense of what must be done and a world in which what is done impacts people.