Comment on How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?

• GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Friend, just be kind and respectful. Whether it’s a teenager asking if you want fries with that, a retail worker helping ring up your purchases or a service tech fixing something for you, having good manners, not actively wasting their time or creating headaches for them, and having a bit of patience when we’re both frustrated with a system that doesn’t make it easy for you or us is a delight. Do your best to raise your kids to do the same, and remember it could just as easily be them on the receiving end. Most people are just fine. You can’t fix other people. You can make it socially costly to be an asshole, so any chance you get, do so.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I already do that, but sometimes I wonder if I could do just a little more to help make up for all the assholes. And myself for the days when I’m the asshole.

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    • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t beat yourself up over being human. We all have our limits of what we can and can’t do, and a customer can only do so much. Stand up for labor, support unions whenever you can, I know that’s harder than it used to be, use your vote, and your voice when you’re able to demand better for all of us. Those are what you can do as a citizen. I know it’s abstract, I know they aren’t perfect solutions, but it’s better than where things are. And maybe we can all work on being better neighbours too. Remember, the most you can do is always working with others as a community.

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    • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t make the same dumbass joke we’ve heard a million times “ope, didn’t scan, must be free”, other than that, just don’t lose your patience with someone who legitimately cannot defend themselves without getting fired

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OK, what can I do other than not make that joke? Because I’m legally obligated to.

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• AlvinTheChipmunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What could I, as a customer, do to make your day brighter?

  Fuck him.

  Give him all the cancers.

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  • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, the “I had to suffer, so everyone else does too” mentality. Now I see why they wished the worst on you.

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    • AlvinTheChipmunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have the right to say “some kids deserve painful cancer”

      It’s my legal right.

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      • TheMuffinMan@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nobody challenged your legal rights.

        You are a vile human being.

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, and it’s everyone else’s legal right to both tell you what they think of what you said, and refuse to associate with you.

        Laws are in place because of precedent. New precedent is set every day.

        Society makes laws, but is greater than its laws. Laws don’t define society, they help enforce it.

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      • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep, and it’s everyone else’s right to wish it right back at you. I almost wish I believed in hell, because the idea of people who think like that slow-roasting for eternity is comforting. Unfortunately, the cosmos doesn’t usually do justice. That’s a human affectation. May you always find justice.

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      • Krusty@quokk.au ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your right and your stupidity.

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      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re legally allowed to, but that doesn’t mean you should. I’m legally allowed to eat a whole bag of sugar as fast as I can

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If this is what you’re like in real life, i feel like the world would be better without you

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    • AlvinTheChipmunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m simply respecting your right to free speech. You have the right to say and think, ‘Billionaires deserve to die.’ That’s your First Amendment right, and I respect your right to think it. However, at the exact same time, I 100% also have the right to say, ‘You deserve cancer. I hope your kids get cancer, and if your 5-year-old son dies in a school shooting, he deserves it.’

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      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You have a right to say it, but that doesn’t mean you should say it. And I never said billionaires deserved to die. Like a lot of people in this thread, I just want their wealth redistributed. Telling people their kids deserve to die is dickish behaviour and you ought to stop. You aren’t legally required to stop, but you ought to. People have a right to disassociate with you for this behaviour and they probably should. Thank you for respecting my right to free speech, but doing so doesn’t require you to say dickish things to people

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why? What the fuck did they do to you?

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