Just Say No
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What a meaningless piece of rhetoric from a group of self-professed moral relativists. Playing on their own godless terms, everything within the game of nature/life seems to be about systemized models and how long and successfully these structures can hold together from the individual unit to the whole, usually that comes with some strong parameters of who fills what niche and how smoothly the foodchain operates within that ecosystem as the result of a number of very discriminatory processes - by this metric how successfully I can model a society can't always be about making everyone happy, comfortable, or accomodating people of an entirely seperate cultural egregore; my own structure tends to fall apart in doing so (because nature is brutal towards the permissive) granted, this tends to be their exact stated goal which is to "deconstruct" everything yet there doesn't seem to be an actual blueprint in mind. Maybe we're talking to the wrong chess pieces.
In anycase, my way, our way, has literally given these people the very concept of decency to bastardize and distort to begin with so it is important to set boundaries, and boundaries tend to start with "no".
"Just be a decent fucking human being" is like being commanded to watch the player character apply all of his buffs and save his game while you're still pathing along.
Just be permissive goy!
“Just be a decent fucking human being” = let me do more communism. Always.
My response would be “assume that people are self-interested, then run the simulation”. We’ll see which worldview offers the most predictive power.
Another way to say it would be this: in the history of the world, at no point has “everyone just” done anything. So if your ideology depends on “everyone just” doing something, then your ideology is doomed.
It's not exactly meaningless, it's essentially a threat. "Agree with us or become an outlaw in our eyes. We'll do anything we want to hurt you once we deem you not decent and not human"