• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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    17 days ago

    This is going to be counter intuitive: being a POS is something some people want. They especially want it if it promises them comfort, luxury, or status.

    I mean, look at all the trash people consume everyday despite how bad it is for them. We all know it’s bad. Still, we gotta have it.

    Being a POS is like drinking soda with no one to tout the benefits of drinking straight H2O. The left needs to make drinking water sexy!

    • Revonult@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Bad analogy. My choice of beverage does not affect other people.

      Treating people with basic respect and as equals is no one’s responsibility to “make sexy”. Let’s say the convo was about being racist. Is it someone’s responsibility to make it cool to treat another person as an equal? Or would you be bigoted because it just how things are?

      Edit: changed Influence to affect