• lance20000@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    Bruce Carrey.

    I get it, aging sucks, I’m staring down the barrel of 40, and that’s just the beginning of the downward trajectory, but I will never philosophically agree with surgical or chemical intervention for aging.

    It is vanity and insecurity masking as self expression.

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      24 days ago

      What’s wrong with vanity? Is this a seven deadly sin kind of thing? Psychologically, there isn’t anything bad about being vain, it’s a religious problem, ain’t it?

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        24 days ago

        No, it’s a problem with modern society lacking any sense of morality, and morals are not about religion. It’s a fundamental lack of character and humanity.

        “What’s wrong with vanity?” What a stupid question. Your ignorance shows your Americanized ignorance where “the self” has turned toxic.

        The top response in this Reddit post goes over what is wrong with vanity: https://www.reddit.com/r/entj/comments/89qkc0/why_is_vanity_considered_a_bad_quality/.

        My TLDR: You’re excessively focused on your yourself, and the opinions and views of others are shallow. You only care about how you are precevied, and will do anything to continued to be precevied a certain way, by any means, leading to compromises.

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          24 days ago

          Yeah, your post reads like it was written by the type of person who uses a Reddit post as their source of truth.

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              24 days ago

              Being correct doesn’t give you the right to be an ass. That’s just as bad as being vain is, at least.

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                24 days ago

                There are times to be nice and there are times to be blunt. There is no time vanity is useful.

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                  22 days ago

                  Just as being vain can be an excess of self-confidence, being rude can be an excess of being blunt. It would be good not to cross that threshold without a solid purpose. What I’m saying is: this was not a good time to be blunt.