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5 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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People who do shameful things should be ashamed, and if they aren’t, then others should shame them, to give them a chance to learn the rudimentary difference between right and wrong they should have mastered by age three.

This is a society. Other people exist.
Enablement of abusive behavior isn’t morality. It’s abuse.
This isn’t the tough part. You actually don’t need outside permission to decide that shameful behavior is shameful. You don’t have to wait for authorization to hold principles or stand up for them.

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If the only answer to abusive people is successfully persuading them not to be abusive...

Then the abuse becomes everyone else’s fault, for not catering to the abuser sufficiently enough to persuade him.

Which is exactly the way an abusive person wants you to think.

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If an abuser proved willing to be persuaded, then persuade them.

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