#Morals and Values

[mylittlesecrethaven]

Blaming Heroes Is For Cowards: MHA Talk

Ok, this is another long one and I'm doing this at night where I'm tired and my thoughts are easier, so let's go.

In the newer season of My Hero, we see people losing faith in the heroes, which is what happens to people. Humans are very strange creatures, and we like to flock to areas and people we deem as safe. However, if we can't leave that area, for whatever reason be it literally or they just don't want to, and they feel that their safety is threatened, we lash out, as most animals do.

However, animals usually lash out at the threat. We as humans, however, understand the concept of protectors, and those we deem as our protectors are held to a higher standard by us. Now imagine you are one of these protectors to say, oh I don't know, a whole country? That's a lot of pressure and people you have to keep feeling safe.

Now, the villains in My Hero have escaped and are causing trouble and bringing many deaths. Humans, as we are, are either lashing out at the threat, the protectors, or both. It's just how we react. Some people are stepping up and trying to become new protectors, either to save themselves or to save others, and they are using their quirks and support items to do this.

The big problem with this, however, is that these people have no idea what they're doing. They've never done this before, so they're struggling to survive and protect themselves, let alone others. As this happens, the original protectors can't step in to help, causing more distrust as people believe the heroes aren't doing their jobs anymore. The heroes are, though, it's just that they're spread so thin. There's just not enough of them to help everybody.

That's another thing that humans have a problem with. We are selfish creatures. Yes, some people out there might not be selfish, but they're outliers in this conversation. As selfish creatures, we all wish to feel safe. Safety can include anything from food and shelter to feeling socially accepted for who we are (This is currently a big problem in race and lgbtq) However, the My Hero universe is mainly focused on the safety people want to feel from heroes.

This is a giant cycle, if you can't tell. The villains got out, causing unrest. The heroes are spread thinner, making more and more people feel less safe, causing these people to lash out at the villains and cause more damage and harm than they mean to cause, making the heroes more spread out.

While all of this is happened, the people are also lashing out at their protectors because they are afraid and don't know what else to do. That's another human trait. When we don't know what to do and are stressed, we go back to our baser instincts and forget what we call logic. Now, with all of this lashing out at the protectors, they won't feel safe either and wish to leave their job to feel safer. As I mentioned earlier, safety can include feeling socially accepted, which is what is happening in My Hero.

This causes heroes to quit, yet again spreading out the quickly diminishing population of heroes. Now, I haven't finished the season as of typing this, but I might in the future, so I'm unsure how this all works out.

Now, my title doesn't make sense as of now, so let me explain. This also ties into our world. The people blaming the heroes are scared, yes, but what they're doing is causing more reason for them to be scared. They need to find something to trust and need to understand that they can't do much on their own. That's why there's literal schools to train heroes. People's prides have been raised too much or they just become that desperate.

It's the same in our world. People are trusting the police less (which, there is some reasoning to that but still) and they are starting to rely on themselves. This reliance on themselves, though, is causing more problems that the police just can't handle.

I will say, there are some pretend protectors, in both our world and the My Hero world. People we thought we could trust, but were in it for their own benefit. That's why trust issues are at an all time high, in both My Hero and our own world.

I am not here to give a solution to these problems as I don't know one. What I mainly do is acknowledge what's happening and see if there's anything I can do to help without hindering. If there isn't, I stay out of it. I'm not saying everyone should do this. I wrote this mainly just to talk about the My Hero universe as of the newest season and some of it's ties to our current world.

Anyways, that's my rant for now. This is probably coming out late September even though I'm writing this in early August.

[eclipse-of-grief]

“If she has truly changed, that means she was always capable of change… but I just wasn't worth changing for.”

-Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place

[tears-that-heal]

Dido! 😄 An artist's work is a reflection on how they view themselves, the world around them and how they coincide. An additional thought with that said...what are the reflective messages in your art that brings to others, and yourself? Darkness; Light; Truth; Escape; Sobering? One factor that separates an amateur artist to a professional is consciously choosing your creative content's message. I'm personally a very spiritual, idealist who was raised with very practical and realistic upbringing. So for me, I ideally need to keep a balance of using my creative art skills practically alongside keeping my core morals and values priority. 😊 It's a huge challenge, but not impossible! Besides Creativity Blooms Under Adversity. 🌼

[in-gods-service]

Thieves and Robbers

Jesus said that all who try and enter the pen of the sheep by a way different than the gate or door, they are no different than a “Thief and a Robber.” John 10:1 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” Featured Author: Sue Love Learn more about Sue Love Visit Sue’s website: …

[rachandruin]

"Food has no moral value" doesn't just apply to eating processed/"unhealthy" foods or disordered eating, it also means eating a vegetarian or vegan diet does not make you any more morally right than people who don't

[powerfulmind611]

Prince Dharmapala and the Water Demon - A Buddhist Tale of Redemption

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[captainjonnitkessler]

also. hate discourse around indigenous knowledge because it's like Yes the indigenous people have knowledge based on historical uses that should be adopted into the mainstream. But then somewhere down the line it becomes "white people can NEVER truly understand indigenous lands, their ancestors came from EUROPE" and its like ok that is anti-immigration & blood quantum rhetoric. people's knowledge do not come from their genetics Nor do they come from ancestor spirits. Why is this a left position

Oh yeah supposedly-left people on tumblr are fucking weird about bloodlines and heritage. I genuinely can't stand it.

In this case it's perpetuating Noble Savage stereotypes about how indigenous people are inherently good and pure and magically connected to the land, instead of literally just being regular people.

A lot of times people insist you need to Find Your Heritage in order to "heal yourself spiritually", which I think is insulting nonsense. And as a mutt with no real intention of finding out my family history, it's really disconcerting to be told that I can't ever really love or understand the place I live, because my great-great grandparents didn't live here. It's extremely anti-immigrant, it reeks of blood and soil nationalism, and I will be ranting against it until the day this website dies.

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

[prommytheus]

me: im not a asoryu divorce truther, but i AM an asoryu taking a break & eventual unlabeled-long-distance-situation truther. they ABSOLUTELY needed to go on different paths at the end of the game. i totally get people who rewrite them to go back home together after 2-5, but it misses the point IMO. their split is a bittersweet thing & a testament to their devotion to each other as people and friends more than it’s a toxic split and a tragedy. it’s not ryuunosuke leaving in bitter anger at kazuma’s deceit, or kazuma being idiotically self punishing. rather, it’s them mutually saying “We need to exist outside of each other for a while for our own development as people. But i would never leave you in anger. You will always be enough for me, but you also need to learn to be enough for yourself. And ultimately we will meet again at the crossroads. When we need each other the most, and we are finally ready, and we will walk our paths side by side. Unbroken, and never having been broken. And that bond is stronger than both of our deceit, violence, shyness, and ignorance combined.”

their physical split is a show of their assurance that they could never spiritually ‘fall off’ from each other. no matter what happens, they stand together in a cosmic sense. they need to be apart so that kazuma can find a self that will live past 24, and so ryuunosuke can develop the self he found in his own journey— the self that sees its value at all. basically, ryuunosuke is leaving for himself to prove that he has a self, and kazuma is staying for himself so he can learn to care about himself enough to put his struggle in the hands of the people offering to him— so he can learn to stop running. do you get me?

you, tied to a chair and actively being waterboarded: BLBLBLBLBLLBLUBUBU—

[mylittlesecrethaven]

My Hero Academia Morals

I'm currently watching the new seasons of My Hero Academia and I've gotten to the part where Shigaraki finished his attack and ran away and Uraraka saw the hero dude say "I can't do this anymore, I don't want to be a hero anymore." And it made me think. My Hero is literally just about conflicting morals and ideals. Shigaraki doesn't count in this, he's just in it for revenge on the heroes and All For One is just an asshole. This is gonna be long so bear with me.

Spinner wants to change hero society because he was influenced by Stain, who had a good idea, but society deemed his method immoral. But was it really? I know I'm gonna get backlash for this, but just speaking about what's wrong with the world probably won't do anything. Stain was kinda right with how he put things into action. Although, honestly, he would have done better becoming a good hero and refusing payment. That would have been a better statement, but still.

Dabi's also in it for personal revenge, but he also wants the world to see that heroes aren't all what they live up to. Endeavor was not that good of a father, but he's trying on both the hero spectrum and the family spectrum. Dabi is kinda a half and half case.

Edit from Queue - Dabi was kinda just being selfish, so maybe ignore his thing that I wrote.

Toga is... well... another weird case, so I won't focus on her.

Overhaul saw Quirks as a disease and wanted to fix society. A lot of people wouldn't agree with him because they wouldn't and couldn't see the world from his point of view. Him testing on Eri is a... rough subject... I personally like Eri, so I won't say too much on that. But he had generally the right approach. He saw that Quirks were a problem and tried to fix it, but most people didn't share his views, so they wanted him gone.

Destro and Re-Destro had a good idea as well. Quirks are an individual problem and shouldn't be treated as a normal thing. Everybody's different and they shouldn't be put down by the same constraints. (If you've seen BNA, you'll know what a problem this is for the Beastmen) They both wanted people to be free to use their Quirks. However, many people like the idea of laws to keep the safe, and this freedom that they both wished for was a scary idea for a lot of people both in power and under said power. These guys, I'd say, had the right idea and the right path.

All in all, it just comes down to personal views. Another example, I really like Hawks, but I also really like Twice. Death is not a very big subject for me and doesn't usually upset me as much as other people. (I've been told I need to have more respect for the dead and feel more sad when people die, but I really don't. They're dead and that's normal, so I continue my life.) However, heroes are supposed to protect. Yes, killing can sometimes be necessary, but I don't like the idea that the people who are supposed to be protecting us can so easily kill us. (This is also evident with many law enforcement issues.) So I'm really iffy on if I still like Hawks or not. If you're going to protect us, you can't kill us, even if we have done terrible things like kill other people.

That's just my view on all of this. Morals and values change from person to person, as does the meaning of good and bad, hero and villain. Just, stay open to people's opinions and ideals. Be a nice person. That's pretty much what this entire post is about.

[leftballoonbluebird]

This what I love about Stormlight Archive. Moash and Kaladin have the same mindset at the beginning, Lighteyes are BAD and it would be GOOD if they were all dead, right?

WRONG.

there isn't a "kill all the ____" that will fix the problems of the world, because, 1. you probably can't. 2. if you did, more of them would probably come into existence, or 3. other people would come to fit the same social position. 4. There isn't a group of Fundamentally Bad Evil People that Cause All The Problems, because 5. Harm isn't caused by a type of person. everyone causes harm and an effective system of addressing harm has to contend with that. 6. you will end up expanding the definition of ____ to include whoever else you want to kill anyway. which will suck. 7. Destruction without building will leave nothing behind. New harms will arise. Old harms will continue. Because there is nothing to replace them. There is nothing Helpful being done. a better world isn't created by just getting rid of all the bad stuff and calling it a day. you have to actually make something that meets peoples needs. 8. structures of power and harm sometimes maintain themselves even if no one intends them to or purposefully wants them to. 9. systems of power will end up finding a scapegoat. they will convince you that some marginalized group are the real ____ and you should focus on them. and in your zeal and blood thirst you, or at least some of your allies, will fall for it. And you will commit atrocities. 10. The world that is created can only come from the world that is. And look, whatever group you are thinking of -- yes I mean them too. Pedophiles, rapists, murderers, sociopaths, nazis, billionaires, cops, you name it. Harm and oppression is far too complicated to ever be solved with Finding The Right Group To Kill. And there are lots of really great arguments to be made about why eliminationist rhetoric is ethically bad, or historically questionable, etc. I am open to that being added on and talked about too. But my point is that It Will Not Accomplish Your Desired Results. You Will Have Committed Atrocities and You Will Have Failed At Achieving Your Initial Goal.

[eeriedragone]

I had a random idea of Kaycee using the dagger, and then my thoughts spiralled

Maybe an earlier version of Inscryption allowed the player to use the dagger more often, and Kaycee took advantage of it as often as possible, even though she should have fixed the mechanic as soon as she noticed. She's forced to do it when Leshy gets fed up with it and retaliates.

If she could she'd jump him and find the missing eyeballs, but she's not literally in the game (yet), so her movement is very limited. Leshy couldn't just delete the eyeballs, so he stuffed them in his mouth and is storing them in his cheeks like a squirrel (so imagine him in the comic as if he's speaking with his mouth full).

[foursaints]

also i think harry potter is a more interesting character when you allow james to be extremely morally grey. imo this is more reflective of canon: he was a bully. he was blindly privileged. he harassed lily and treated it like a joke. and no matter what, he's still a man who wanted to marry "the brightest witch of her age" and saw absolutely nothing wrong with making her his jobless prospectless pregnant housewife at 19 years old! that's entitlement!

like in doing this, james technically carried on centuries of misogynist conservative pureblood tradition (marrying women off to be teenaged childbrides) without another thought. this is the environment in which he was raised. and he told himself it was ok and progressive because he, like, wasn't racist to her for being muggleborn and genuinely loved her as a person, or whatever. but that's the bare minimum! and it shows that he had no qualms with participating in pureblood culture & tradition when it suited him, because he literally materially did. a better james potter would never have been comfortable with letting her take on that role.

and the series themes are more resonant when harry's parents aren't both just, like, nebulously ontologically good. it's really poignant when harry spends his entire life being taught to idolize a man who was, in actuality, kind of a piece of shit— and grapples with this as he grows up, ultimately choosing to be different. the lesson is that both good (and cruelty) can come from anyone, regardless of birth circumstances or house placement, because goodness is a choice.

[raccooninapartyhat]

working yourself to death and drowning yourself in the world's burdens is not a virtue. you need to pause and breathe. take a rest and remember to enjoy life too

[philosophybits]

What makes us so inconstant in our friendships is the fact that it is hard to know the qualities of the soul, and easy to know those of the mind.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[yikesy]

btw hermes is low empathy, high sympathy, ??? compassion

apollo is high empathy, mid sympathy, high compassion

dionysus is high empathy, low sympathy, mid compassion

artemis is mid empathy, mid sympathy, high compassion