I wasn’t talking about asking others to risk their lives without risking your own though, I specifically said ‘especially keen’, as in eager to sacrifice others for their own enjoyment (or whatever.)
As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it, but ‘why aren’t you sacrificing yourself to satisfy my vicarious moral outrage’ is a bit fucking rich coming from someone who isn’t also lining up to do the same thing. One might even call that a kind of hypocrisy too.
That’s not what the previous poster said though, nor is that what ‘keen’ means.
I’m especially keen for someone to step up and do the deed, but that has nothing to do with my enjoyment, and goes way beyond just the morality of what’s happening (although that part of the situation is also fucked). But no, my country is under attack, and I want that attack to stop. And in every thread like this one where we express frustration with the people whose job is to stop the attack just standing idle and letting it happen; some jackass always chimes in with “well why don’t you do it??” as though it’s hypocritical to tell people to do their job. It’s not.
You know what, I think maybe I was a little overzealous in my reading of that person’s comment. I just went and reread it and realized there’s not a lot there, so I was probably assuming intent or meaning that may or may not have been there. My bad.
I wasn’t talking about asking others to risk their lives without risking your own though, I specifically said ‘especially keen’, as in eager to sacrifice others for their own enjoyment (or whatever.)
As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it, but ‘why aren’t you sacrificing yourself to satisfy my vicarious moral outrage’ is a bit fucking rich coming from someone who isn’t also lining up to do the same thing. One might even call that a kind of hypocrisy too.
That’s not what the previous poster said though, nor is that what ‘keen’ means.
I’m especially keen for someone to step up and do the deed, but that has nothing to do with my enjoyment, and goes way beyond just the morality of what’s happening (although that part of the situation is also fucked). But no, my country is under attack, and I want that attack to stop. And in every thread like this one where we express frustration with the people whose job is to stop the attack just standing idle and letting it happen; some jackass always chimes in with “well why don’t you do it??” as though it’s hypocritical to tell people to do their job. It’s not.
You know what, I think maybe I was a little overzealous in my reading of that person’s comment. I just went and reread it and realized there’s not a lot there, so I was probably assuming intent or meaning that may or may not have been there. My bad.
Easy to assume malice when we’re surrounded by it irl. I do that shit all the time too… we’re all just fed up and exhausted.