It's for the page on 'Chaotic Good.' The use of freedom here made me think of the way freedom is bandied about by reactionaries. Because d&d is relevant right now, the lib energy of d&d, and the way we love to look at our world through pop culture, I immediately realized libertarians and radlibs see themselves as the chaotic good type. They get to be pro individualist capitalism and they get to pretend they could be the good one with it.

But when seen through this subtype of chaotic good, good before freedom, you see the way their understanding of 'good' is held back by wanting to protect rights.

It's just funny to me how libs who want to protect something like free speech are actively prioritizing that over the good for others. Like they actively know it's not good to let people just say something offensive, but they should just have the right anyway.

It's something that I appreciate in leftist spaces. I'd rather have a content filter or spoiler tag over slurs/fucked up images. It's not the best system, but Hexbear is one of the few places I feel safe talking and it's within a community that also excludes bigots.

I dunno. What do people think about the Character Alignment chart and its applications to morals and philosophy? Does something like that help you better conceptualize politics? Where do you think the liberalization of character alignment hurts society most?

Also, since I'm high, I'm also willing to answer questions. And I feel chatty. Will also do requests for short pieces of writing, creative writing advice, stories, opinions, or whatever.

  • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    In fifth grade, a couple of kids at my school had a Zelda Club where you couldn't talk to them if you didn't have or play Ocarina of Time for the N64. I'd have used that shit to get into that club and realize it was stupid way earlier.

    It sucked being excluded from the media conversation by strict family or growing up poor.

    I could write essays for days but I hated them so much. It just felt too much like writing what they wanted me to write.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I mean, what else do kids talk about? I was excluded from a lot of playground conversations because I hadn't watched pokemon that morning or Southpark the previous night. The lessened as I got older and people talked about relationships more, something else I'm pretty bad at.