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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
I think you're all reading me say one thing, then extrapolating it out like we're talking about someone hoarding water.
We're talking about a lady buying a non-essential good, and another lady getting all in the first lady's face about literally nothing at all.
We're not talking about someone hoarding respirators, or other life-saving goods.
We're talking about 2 people behaving badly, and I'm simply saying that there is no moral high-ground for the camera lady to stand on.
This is a mole-hill at best, and the white-knighting surrounding it like as though we're talking about war rationing is absurd hyperbole.
Again, I don't think either person is behaving badly universally. Morality is contextual. And it's perfectly normal for people to misread the context and therefore act immoral. As I've said, camera lady is a nosy busy body if you shift a few variables, and naively out of step with the looming disaster if you shift a few more. Each person is rolling the dice with their action.
I don't think any of these people are bad, or evil, or any thing like that. I don't even know what that means tbh. What I do think is that they're performing social functions-- when they're well used, our reaction rewards them, and when they're misused, our reaction discourages such use.
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