lemonsharks: (end of days bingo)
lemonsharks ([personal profile] lemonsharks) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2022-02-26 06:02 am (UTC)

So...what happens if one of your children grow up into an adult you just do not like that much and another grows up into an adult you'd choose as a dear friend if you hadn't been their parent?

What is Parent supposed to so there, Pretend they both like both children the same when they really do not? Lie to their face?

Also, there's adopting husband's values ("eating meat is value neutral; it's okay to go down to the gun range and safely shoot some targets as a hobby") and then there's adopting husband's values ("People bring poverty on themselves; welfare queens are stealing all our tax dollars"), and a whole lot in-between.

At some point "values" stop being differences of opinion and start being bigotry cloaked in the fallacy of absolute tolerance. The truth is that some opinions and values, even deeply and sincerely held ones, aren't valid and aren't ok.

And the consequences for holding those values is that decent people like you less--or not at all--and mourn the person you used to be and could have become as if you'd died.


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