r/moraldilemmas

If I discover a new trick to make my potato chips delicious, I can gatekeep it from all the other people who are selling their potato chips. It is not my issue if they aren't getting enough customers. So why isnt this the same on a larger scale? When a researcher invents a life-saving medicine, why is he not allowed to only reveal it to those that pay him? He discovered it, therefore, he can choose to reveal it to whoever he wants.

Is it ethical?

With the idea of medical knowledge belonging to all of humanity, doesn't that belittle the fact that without you, this wasn't going to be discovered?

I know it makes sense to price medicine around 10$ per patient (if there are 100 million patients). But what is the moral reason behind there being a limit to the price? Why can't it be 1000$?

In every action a human takes, there are victims. When you open a supermarket, there are people dying of hunger that you refuse to feed, but that's is not a problem you caused, therefore not your problem. So why are you guilt-tripped when people die from a disease you have a cure of?

PS: I am not evil lol. I just heard about Heinz Dilemma and i am asking questions.

Hello!

I’m not really sure where else to post this but I guess is this scenario morally wrong?

So my ex broke up with me 4 months ago now. I’m 22 and he’s 20. We dated for a year and a half, broke up because I was not the best honestly and had a lot of triggers + undiagnosed OCD affecting the relationship. He felt drained and told me he couldn’t do it anymore.

After 2 months I kinda gave up being persistent on getting therapy for the relationship and started working on myself like he wanted me to. I used to text him frequently asking for another chance saying I’d do anything and sharing how depressed I was and wallow in self potty. It was embarrassing. Eventually I got help and I would occasionally text him but more so say I’m thinking of him or that I learned something new about how I’d react and how I was sorry for hurting him previously.

After some time It got less and less, and it’s like as I decreased the attention he started liking me more again? Sometimes I’d get drunk and text him that I missed him or be flirty and he’d reply for a bit and retreat again. Anyway, eventually my friend takes me out because she doesn’t want to see me depressed and I met this guy let’s call him P. So P and I hooked up and it was great, another part of why me and my ex failed was I couldn’t really have a sex drive because I was on birth control and didn’t realize how badly it affected it until I got off after we broke up.

There’s this period when you get off it where you’re INCREDIBLY horny I’m talking about I was going at it 3 times a day alone and well I was in a long distance relationship too so I was already not having sex for 4 months at a time and figured well I haven’t really ever hooked up before so why not. We kept talking and eventually we saw each other again a few days ago, but the thing is my ex is talking to me again.

He tells me he still feels for me, but that he is afraid of hurting me because he feels resentful. But the he’ll text me he misses me or that he waits for this painting I made for him with a letter that I sent over a week ago and said he wants to cry over it and appreciate it deeply. He previously would say he hates me, he doesn’t want me, and I asked if he’s been hooking up etc he said why are you asking me if we broke up it shouldn’t have me so distressed so I stopped stressing about it and let go but he’s coming back the more I do.

Anyway, yeah, is it wrong to reciprocate him? To say I miss him too, or the fact that I did make a beautiful painting for him despite having hooked up with P once before? I don’t know if it is, but I also wonder if he too has been doing the same. I personally wouldn’t mind, because we’re not together. But I don’t know if it’s morally wrong, because he is a sensitive person and I feel like maybe he’d cry if he knew? But at the same time I don’t even know if this would truly lead to reconciliation or not because he has been back and forth, though this time he has been more persistent than any other.

So, is this morally wrong? Do I have an obligation to flat out say I’ve been hooking up? Or do I just keep shut and see where it goes? If he ever asked me, I wouldn’t lie, but at the moment it’s not come up. I also do kind of like the guy I’m seeing, and always having had a complicated relationship with sex due to my own trauma, It feels liberating in a way to have found someone who I’m comfortable with and he’s honestly extremely attractive too and kind. So yeah. I do, still love my ex though.

I called 911 and reported a licence plate for a guy in a pathfinder going from 80km to 150km/h repeatedly , and flashing us from behind, swerving bad. Considering a young man was recently hit and left alone for dead on the hw in my city literally last week I found it reasonable to call 911 and report the plate. I only noticed when I went by the guy was SUPER fucking old and I wasn’t even sure if he was drunk, but he was driving in the way that would kill someone , and clearly not able to look at the road properly … I still feel bad tho

I'm a single guy ,28M, never been in a relationship or even really talked much to girls in life– super awkward/introverted, desi family pressures, all that usual stuff. While traveling in Southeast Asia , I ended up doing things I'm really ashamed of now.

I have for a long time, tried to go to meetups, only am able to talk to the men. I get intimidated by women and so have able been able to bond with women in any way possible. I tried getting on dating apps and marriage apps but there generally got very few matches with girls and got rejected by girls when I told them about the experiences below.

Lost my virginity in Thailand (paid service). It wasn't that I had gone to Thailand for sex. I was exploring Thailand and had landed upon a strip club, there I had taken a liking to a stripper and then she invited me and her friend for a threesome paid sex and drunk me obliged. There, I could only have sex for 10 seconds with condom and after that blood started coming from my foreskin, so had to stop after 10 seconds and had applied cream to heal the wound. I think it was somehow due to friction between foreskin and condom. So, it was a traumatic experience for me.

Had sex once in a massage parlor in Vietnam. Like above, it was not planned, I was just there for chilling, was just tired and had gone to maasage parlour, and they asked for boom boom and I couldn't say no.

For over a year, on an average of twice a month, I went to various massage places in Bangalore for handjobs or body-to-body rubs(basically making out but only kissing shoulder and boobs) – no penetrations or bjs, but still paid services.

Everything was with consenting adults (as far as I could tell), I was single the whole time, no cheating on anyone. I never went looking for underage stuff or anything violent/forced. But now that I'm back in India, the guilt is eating me up – cultural shame, family values, wondering if I'm "damaged goods" or a bad person.

I have gotten std test for it and it is negative for all. Also, I have stopped this habit from quite some time.

Could this come back to bite me somehow (like if it gets out)?

More importantly, women, How would you feel if a guy you're considering for dating/marriage/arranged setup admitted this? Is it a dealbreaker forever? Does it make me seem like I objectify women, or just lonely and pathetic? Would you advise total honesty in AM setups, or bury it and move on? Has anyone dealt with similar regrets from guys in their circle?

I know that what I have done is shameful and have quit it. I also want to know whether there is some redemption for me. Also, I did ask each masseuse or stripper whether they were below 20 or trafficked , they did say no to both. Still, I know what I did is shameful and ick and disgusting and doesn't make anything right, but maybe could anyone please how can I help any victims of abuse from my side for the same?

I am truly sorry—for reducing anyone to a transaction, for any unseen burden or discomfort caused, and to every woman (affected or not) who feels disgust, anger, or disappointment because of choices like mine. You deserve respect and full humanity, not this.

TL; DR : Took handjobs for a year in India. had sex once in Thailand and once in Vietnam, all above at massage parlours. Filled with regret now, how would this impact my future chances of marriage? What can I do to redeem myself from this ? I have gotten std test for it and it is negative for all. Also, I have stopped this habit from quite some time.

I (19 F) ((Adding for extra clarity I am not a stripper this is just my opinion as an outsider)) recently had a conversation with my boyfriend (23 M) about the morals of being a stripper. The whole conversation first started out with the question or rather more my statement that I personally believe that someone can be a stripper and be in a relationship while not liking or wanting their partner to engage with or use porn. (I understand that statement can be objectively hypocritical, but I'm honestly unsure on how to fully express my views on it.) Anyways, after that initial starter the conversation/debate turned more into a question on the morality of becoming a stripper in which he (I will refer to him as OP from now on) had brought up that you could just find another job, which yes someone could very well just choose not to be a stripper, but I do not think it should be morally frowned upon for someone to choose that as a job. I don't believe that being a stripper is the ideal job neither is it the safest which is why I do hold a level of respect for them which it has seemed as the opposite viewpoint for OP. I think I just have more open views when it comes to sex work and hold less traditional views morally than him when it comes to this, but the moral dispute on whether being a stripper makes you lesser than someone else with any other job honestly just rubbed me the wrong way and I'd like to hear other people's opinions on it. I do just feel like it is wrong personally to view yourself as morally superior to someone who works as a stripper. What do you guys think?

*Adding this after posting because I feel like it also holds some relevance

OP does watch porn, not currently because I have made it clear that it is a boundary of something I do not want my partner to be doing in a relationship, but does not view porn in a negative light or the average person who consumes it which was one of the main reasons it rubs me the wrong way that OP does not seem to respect strippers because it is such a similar topic and he was a consumer of content from a sex work industry (though he says he does not like the industry, then why consume the media) *((I know it's more complicated than just saying that, but oh well)). OP's whole viewpoint and points he made regarding his opinion just felt very misogynistic in nature to me considering these facts.

I’m not sure if it’s relevant, but I’m a woman. I guess it sort of is since women’s clothes are usually tighter or shorter than men’s.

One time I went out swimming and I wore a pair of women’s briefs that were made out of swimsuit-like material and a cropped T shirt. I don’t like how bikinis or anything fit on me. Technically what I did shows less skin, but it is also underwear. According to my mom, it didn’t look like underwear since it didn’t have visible seams or anything. Is it wrong or indecent?

Also one time at my mom’s apartment, which houses a lot of people but hardly anyone goes outside on our side for some reason, I walked outside wearing boxers (the loose kind) and a shirt without realizing because I was kind of freaking out over something and needed some fresh air because I felt like I was going to pass out. Then I walked back inside to put pants on once I realized. I’m just wondering if this is public indecency and if I should be ashamed or if it’s illegal.

I’m pretty sure I year ago I used to walk outside onto the driveway to grab stuff from the car or just to quickly get some fresh air (at my dads house, which hardly ever has anyone walking by) wearing boxers and a shirt all the time, and at the time I figured it was fine because I was covered and the boxers were looser and more covering than normal shorts.

My parents never say anything about it and I’m pretty sure they think it’s normal, since my dad does that all the time, but I don’t know if they’re wrong or not.

Hi! I need advice about something that happened with my friend.

So, my neighbor’s daughter, who is also my friend , came to my house and said, “I want to sell your bracelets.”

For context, I make handmade jewelry, and each piece takes me around an hour to complete, so I put a lot of effort into my work.

She told me her school was having a ceremony where students could sell things at stalls. I asked her how it would work, and she said the school would provide the stall for free. Then I asked how much she would pay me per bracelet because I assumed she would buy them first and then sell them.

But she said, “No, I’ll just sell them and give you the money later.”

I was uncomfortable with that idea because if the jewelry didn’t sell, all my hard work would go to waste. Still, she kept insisting. She also gave me many custom requests like “make this color,” “that person likes this design,” and more. I spent hours making everything exactly the way she wanted. At that time, she never mentioned commission even once.

Honestly, I was already nervous about trusting her, but I still gave her the jewelry.

Later, after I came back from school, I called her to ask about the sales, but she didn’t answer. After several calls, she first said she would come to my house, then suddenly asked me to come to hers instead. I agreed because I was anxious.

When I got there, she and her siblings were calculating the price of every single bracelet one by one. It made me even more nervous. They kept asking me the prices, my investment costs, and every little detail as if I had done something wrong.

In the end, the money they gave me was exactly equal to the original prices of my bracelets — just some cents more.

I came home thinking everything was done, but then she and her sister suddenly showed up at my house. Her sister said, “Tell her about the commission you both decided on.”

I was completely shocked.

They claimed that I had agreed to give her 40% commission because she sold my bracelets. But that conversation never happened. I agree that she did me a favour by selling my work but she clearly did not want anything at first. She had never invested any money, never helped make the jewelry, and never mentioned commission before the bracelets sold out.

I didn’t want drama or fights, so I calmly said, “I honestly don’t remember agreeing to that.”

Then they started making up details about how I supposedly agreed to 40%.

Finally, I asked, “Okay, what do you want now?”

She said 25%.

I agreed just to avoid conflict. I subtracted my material costs first and started calculating 25% from the profit, but her sister stopped me and said I should calculate it from the total amount instead.

I explained that my investment money couldn’t be included because that was the cost of materials. After a long argument, she finally understood.

I calculated 25% from the profit, but then her sister said, “Make it 30%.”

At that point, I was exhausted and didn’t want more arguments, so I paid 30% of the profit. Even then, they still looked unhappy.

Now here’s another thing.

Before all this happened, I had told my friend that if all the jewelry sold out, I would give her a treat. At that time, there was no discussion about commission at all and I thought that they were helping me so I should offer them a treat. But they took the commission.

before leaving, they started asking, “So when are we going for the party?”

Even her sister — who didn’t help at all — said she would come too.

Now I honestly don’t know what to do. I already gave commission that was never discussed beforehand, just to keep peace between us. They only started demanding money after realizing everything sold out.

Meanwhile, I was the one who spent hours working until my head, back, and whole body hurt from exhaustion because I did all this in the school days.

So now I’m confused:

Should I still give them the treat?

Or should I tell them to pay for their own food since I already gave commission that was never agreed on before?

What would you do in my place?

Hey guys, I have a toxic ex who I’m considering reaching out to see if we could meet up again. I’d be open to every possibility except for a relationship, so like fwbs or just friends. I feel like I helped her out with a lot of her problems and honestly miss talking to her, we were like best friends when in our 5 month relationship.

Our relationship ended in February, but we have still had sparse contact, first with me reaching out but since March she has reached out. Sometimes as a friend just needing someone to talk to, sometimes wanting more relationship stuff, or sometimes sexual stuff. We were long distance while she studied abroad so like ft sex. But I couldn’t handle the differences in not knowing what she wanted/ it was different vibes each time. So that leads me to the last time she reached out (a week ago)

She texted me and the conversation got from me trying to help her navigate moving back in with her family (Im 21M, shes 20F) to her inquiring about my dating situation. Im seeing a girl where we basically said we are not dating other ppl currently (so kinda exclusive but no labels) and i told my ex. She got jealous (even tho she has dated and slept with other ppl too) but after me pressing if she wanted something more than friends she said no but was open to come visit. She was sending mixed signals.

So now the dilemma, is it violating the current girls trust to reach out to my ex, do I owe anything to the new girl or not bc we haven’t said officially we are exclusive? My ex is the short term fun option, new girl safe long term option who has a great moral compass. Should I just focus on the new girl and try to forget my ex? Or can I do both?

I don’t want to hurt anyone in the process or lead anybody on or be immoral or unloyal. Thanks for any and all advice.

P.S. The reason I want to reach out to my ex, we had a great physical connection, she is really attractive and I would love to explore that at least one more time. And I miss helping her with her problems.

When I went out for a run, I noticed a car across the street, hazards on, windows down, on a slight angle like a bad park job. When I finished my run, I walked to the car (still there same position) because I was going to turn the hazards off - figuring someone accidentally left it on. As I got closer, I see a man in the driver seat, fully reclined, passed out. I see an empty modelo box in the passenger seat and a beer in the cupholder. Honestly I should have looked closer to see if it was open or not. After a few minutes of debating, I called the cops to report the man.

The cops arrived, took a few tries to wake him up, did sobriety tests, and wound up arresting him. I feel extra guilt from the situation because he was Hispanic and even needed a Hispanic cop to translate the whole time. In the current climate, I am now stuck thinking about the extreme of if he gets deported and if he has family, they lost a father because of me. I will never truly know what happens.

I keep thinking, “should I have just woken him up, turned the car off, taken the keys, and ubered him home.” I feel like jerk for my actions and I could have not ruined this stranger’s life.

For this hypothetical, you have died and through some mishap, have ended up in hell instead of heaven. Feeling some sense of pity, the devil offers a deal for you.

If you accept, the devil will send your soul back to earth to kill god's most pious man. After killing him, both you and the pious man will spend 1 year in hell before spending an eternity in heaven. If you do not kill him, the devil will take your soul and you alone will spend an eternity in hell (the priest will still go to heaven after death). You know instinctually that the devil is not lying to you and there will be no additional trickery, do you accept it?

Do some actions justify society forever seeing someone as “bad” even if they have completely changed? How do we actually interpret people’s character as a society? Do we look at people as their overall net actions, or just more recently? Are any of these more justified than the others?

The trolley problem has existed for a long time. The button problem has existed for.... awhile. And I think ultimately, what both of these and other hypotheticals have taught us is... these games are no way to actually discuss morality or come together as a group.

Discussions of these problems don't actually advance our understanding of morality, or how to apply morality in society, because they are impossible situations. There is never going to be a scenario in which the buttons happen, there is never going to be a real world trolley problem. Not one that exists in a vacuum like the problem suggests. And I think these problems are tempting and fun to argue about, because there is no real world consequences for arguing with strangers about how to deal with an impossible, useless scenario. Nobody learns anything. Instead, we both yell at each other, call each other stupid, and sow division and encourage tribalism over something useless. We don't actually learn how to deal with the problems we are facing in this world.

Before the button problem, I hated the trolley problem. Because, there is no nuance, and no sense. Who is tying people to train tracks? Where would this scenario every apply in real life? It encourages people to decide who deserves to be deprioritized instead of questioning the systems that require someone to suffer at the expense of others in the first place.

I may be a red buttoner, but at the end of the day, blue buttoners aren't my enemy. I disagree with them, sure, but this is nothing more than a game. A silly game, that doesn't prepare any of use for actual moral concerns or help us collaborate on making the world a better place. It's easier to play these games than to try to improve the world. And, while there is nothing wrong with playing these games, we shouldn't mistake them for actual discussions of morality, ethics, and harm reduction. The real world is a lot more complicated than a button.

I’ve been having thoughts like ‘what if God asks me to do this?’ and it feels like my mind takes my fear of people and then makes me feel like I need to face this fear because what if God is actually asking me. I usually think about the thought for a while and then forget if they are ‘what if?’ thoughts or not. I start to think they are commands form God that I have to obey and it brings so much fear because it feels like worst case scenario. I know God asks us to do hard things but I’m getting so overwhelmed by all these thoughts and I feel like they aren’t God’s voice. Because they are thoughts due to fear of people they are normally extreme things for me like preaching the gospel in front of a bunch of people in a moving environment where no one speaks in that way. It’s not that I’m ashamed of God but I’m and introvert and the thought of speaking in a place like that infront of people genuinely terrifies me. I feel so trapped like there is no hope and I just have to act on them because they don’t go away even when I pray. I’m trying so hard to not disobey God but I physically cannot do these things (all of these thoughts are coming as I’ve been trying to surrender to God but realised I have such a fear of people). I’ve considered leaving God but I also cannot do that. any biblical or experienced advice would really help :)

Hi, I'm 17 now and when I was 13-14 I hurt people in horrible ways due to my own sexualization and trauma. A younger sibling to be exact. I stopped somewhere at 14 and apologized and explained the disgusting actions I've done and he has forgiven me multiple times. Now I'm 17 and I'm still haunted by it, even though he still forgives me and has made successful efforts to move on.

I still feel like a disgusting monster, and my parents don't support therapy at all and it's been getting harder for me to stop feeling that way. I've been trying for months now with no success, I can't go anywhere therapy related outside, at least not yet without my brother tagging along and my dad following me closely, and I can't go to my school, they'd notify my parents.

Slowly I've been trying to forgive myself, if that's even justified, but when I do regular, normal stuff, sometimes I feel like I'm still a disgusting person because I'm not constantly looking for therapy like I used to. I'm not hurting anyone and I'm just enjoying my time but I feel terrible and lazy. Do I deserve to feel like this. Am I a horrible person or any of these things?

So we all know the saying all is fair in love and war. To some poeple this is true, others opinions are against this thinking. I think we can all agree likening love and war sounds toxic. To some in realty it isn't toxic, to some its apparent it is.

So my family (and lets say about half of society) takes this position. Generally from frustration in our days, we gain this type of thinking. Its provicincal thinking, relating to small matters I would argue. I think the other half would agree.

So my family (I am a 30M, with a 33M brother and 27F sister and almost reitred parents) its trying to punish me for anything I do wrong in the past. To teach me a lesson.

The big deal that started all this was a scene girl I was friends with (I was an average joe abercombrie looking justin beiber back in the day) became friends and everyone agrees she perverted me a bit in a way I wasn't going to without her friendship. Because as a kid I was the nice guy who was only friends with women, so considered effeminate, gay and got bullied and beaten on. But I was kind of an aloof, "lacking selfawareness" person in others perceptions, cause I was still happy go lucky. anyway my scene friend smoked cigs in 8th grade, got caught at school football games, showed me how she stole form the mall, etc. Eventually I became more lax and joined in debauchery a bit. Mostly smoking pot or drinking beer. It was a victimless crime. She one day tells me how she took her grandmas card, and got free things as her grandma "just disputed the charges and the company wanted her relationship so they didn't make her pay". Sounded like a loophole, I didn't have a CC or anyone to ask. First day of summer she says she got it again and will buy me things if I go with her and her 22M boyfriend when we were 15. I agreed. Thought nothing of it. A month later cops show up at my parents home asking me if I had anything to do with it. I say no. I was just dumbfounded. Didn't think we would get in trouble, thought it was some victimless crime she committed. Turns out it was our friends mom card too. So she doubly lied. I denied it at first to the police but they showed me on self checkout with her smiling. They asked again and I said I knew. I was charged as an accomplice, received 1 hour community service while she got a lot more serious punishment on probation, 40 hours community service.

So the bullying I mentioned earlier got way worse after this, as she tried to make me take the blame with the school and our friend. Because I was somewhat an outcast as much as a happy guy people saw me as two-faced, big faker. So people eventually bought into it. But I was bullied for being a f-word, not for being a thief. Because people still had trouble believing I was this mastermind behind it.

i eventually had a strained relationship with my family (from my perceptions it was being gay, to them it was obvious I felt like a thief) and I did become more of a hermit as high school ended. And had bad anxiety around new crowds. My college experience suffered a bit in the beginning but I still made friends, not really long lasting ones cause I went local and other high school kids kept being my friend so as to spread the repuation with me, I wasn't aware of.

So I was kind of hampered in life, eventually couldn't get a job out of college in my intended field. My parents worked with a very old jewish friend of mine to coordinate we room together (she pretended no one would room with her) so we would both sign a lease. She was a roomate from hell, made the apartment into a trap house and I left. Not before she drugged me with acid. Lost over $3000 from not living there.

My family also rekindled with me right after a suicide attempt where I cut my throat, arm and thigh and barely survived. They acted nice at first but eventually kept egging me on to kill myself, pretending they would be nice just so they had another chance to bully me and I would kill myself.

I then was siloed into a management position at a wokrplace I was at for 5 years. When I left and went to another workplace all my coworkers were just constantly putting me down, not interacting or fucking with me while interacting. Went part-time, it sucked but I was in school. They coordinate with all workplace hereafer to make the boss act nice to me so I'd use them as a reference and they could easily spread to bosses what I had done wrong. We all know this is a common occurance, people spread lies as rumors. Its horrid and we can't do naything to stop working with these mentally ill people because they will present themselves well so others take care of them. Thats a whole nother post of moral issues.

So thats the LOVE and WAR the put me through intitally for that credit card crime. Tried to stop me from having friends, inhibit my ability to proliferate or feel good internally so I was feel insane. THis happened from 2012 to 2020?

Then I get a job in entry level healthcare. To them that was them being nice, I worked in health promotion PT previously so really huge demotion in my eyes. Never got a chance to use my degree.

So because I am unhappy with what they "let me have" I am an ingrate asshole piece of shit worse person they know, and theyve ganged up to not only disregard me as a human person and disrepect me in our relationship as a family (who I lived with during this time cause they coerced me with no rent, they needed help as their health deteroirated, starting graduate school, not getting a good job so needing this situation)

So since I had a little break in 2020, theyve started up again making me miserable.

When I started graduate school my office workplace had HR make up things. One girl sitting across from me in cubcicles in HR said I stared at her, maybe 2 months into the job and starting school. Then saying i drop water in the bathroom, I smoke in the bathroom, beause I would run in there on breaks so I wasn't being stared at in relationion and they wanted me to feel pressured to feel stared at all day everday for my entire shift. My bosses ex husband reitree followed me into bathrooms.

I took a job again as a pharmacy techncian just to avoid thi splace. Only to be told I am inept and unable to do the job despite always performing fine for all the years I worked it through school. I got fired. Took another pharm tech job, fired again in 2 months same reasoning. Happened again another time, then another, then another, then another, then another. 7 times in 3 years and all these pharmacies "gave me a chance" despite being terminated from all preivious roles with short durations. They just enjoyed having someone to bully and torment and will always feel justified this is "how you treat others when youre upset and they did somethign bad". I promise you guys I am th enice guy and my parents are way worse but if it doesn't affect them why should they care about nicities?

They've destoryed my credit, took my entire savings from when I was living at home, derailed my school career, and are currently working with my landlords to enter my dwellings to put on parental controls on all my electronics so they can monitor me. Believe it or not its not like I have a million passcodes, passwords, so they can break in easily. I ahve them on film messing with my things. The porblem is cops do not help me. They have illegally towed my car, refused to help me when I showed video evidence of someone brekaing into my car they "Couldn't locate" but looks a lot like my neighbors.

SO they started fights with me to record me getting upset at horrible homophobic things they said about me, cut that part out and show my "behavior" and secrelty video tape me so workplaces could pass it along. They went to a court and lied and said "I pooped all over their place, was mentally ill and not well" I rebutted how did I hold a job and go to school and everyone was silent, you could tell they thought they were going to defeat my spirit with more lies.

I'm not allowed to have a job in the area I live because I went on reddit and complained about my parents mistreatement and neer "got over it" so I need to spend more on gas, get angry over that, more time commuting downtown when I live in a suburbs with tons and tons of oppurtuities.

Because i didn't leave the unit when my landlord "allowed me to break lease" by forfeting my security despoit now they are planning to sue me for $5000 instead of keeepng my $1500 because I don't wan to sign a lease cause I am somehow a PT for 7 years and only able to get a contract role.

Does this seem fair to an individual? What kind of lesson are my parents trying to teach me when the whole point is just to be unfair and never express what it is that upsets them. Just name calling, no constructive criticism. And thats maturity from them. Name calling, bullying, hurting others. Going to war is apparently mature in a nice society. Why can't I get poeple to wise up to the fact while wisdom are sayings, words not really a part of reality they make reality a whole lot better?

So alls fair in love and war cause they watch me on reddit, watch what I comment. They gather around my posts to downvote them so regular redditors just breeze by this. And I know you commenters who consistently bully me mostly live in the same area or are just coordinating with other groups. So I know most people would not agree with your assesssment. Most people wouldn't read this far or GAF to begin with. But its not about catching the most. Its about affecting some. Guys I am going to go back to posting reguarlly everyday, even when I start work next week. Help me heal, stop with these inane lessons with no follow up that I actually learned something. At the very least teach comprehension, and also quit being terrorist to achieve your aim. You awful people who are living next to criminals (not you redditors)

I was raped and became pregnant. It’s a complicated story, but eventually I decided I was going to keep the kids and then had a miscarriage. The anniversary is coming up and I’ve been thinking about this question a lot. Is it okay to bring kids into this situation? How do you eventually talk to them about it? Yes I have a therapist and yes I’m okay, I’m just struggling with this question.

Its not really about being moral but whether being moral has anything to do with the outcome of an act which everyone may consider useful to the society but when does it matter, when will our action with the wrong intent have negative outcomes

There are two buttons, and everyone has to pick one.

The “Life” button does nothing to anybody.

The “Death” button will kill everyone who presses it. HOWEVER, if more than 4 billion people press the “Death” button, it is overloaded and will not kill any of them.

Which button do you press?

As a reader, when writing responses to what you have read you will always be biased. Imagine you read a piece of writing and at the very beginning you find out that the writer is 6 years old. How likely are you to take them seriously? It seems irrefutable that most readers will naturally be less likely to accept, agree, or interact with the 6 year old’s ideas. However now imagine that the very same idea was written by a well known, highly regarded philosopher. Automatically, there will be people who side with whatever has been written just because of who wrote it. Similarly, the writing is likely to be found more agreeable and valuable, than what the six year old wrote, despite the two pieces literally being the same.

To an extent,people seem to decide what they think of something before even reading.

This “bias” also applies to viewpoints.
For example, if a piece is labelled as being in support of determinism, or even just written by a determinist, people who believe in determinism will go into reading it with a mindset of wanting to agree, and therefore be more likely to agree, despite the possibility of the idea not aligning with what they actually believe in. Similarly, people who do not believe in determinism will be rushing to find a weak point in the writing, craving the idea of being able to counter the points made. This mindset already makes these readers drastically less likely to agree with what is said.

By assuming positions within philosophy or anything , we numb ourselves to the possible validity of other arguments, meaning we bias ourselves.

With these problems in mind, it seems reasonable to claim that a solution would be to provide no context of the writer.

However in doing this, a piece is much less likely to yield any engagement as it targets nobody. Much less people want to read it as it provides less opportunity for debate promoting the readers beliefs. Also, people have no reason to assume anything good about the writer, so assume they are average and “just another piece”.

The image I paint can not be a full explanation.
If it were to be, how would there become new highly regarded writers, and views? What am I missing?