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by gimmeThaBeet 2437 days ago
I feel like that philosophy is like "never look down, for fear you might have to come to terms with the giants whose shoulders you stand on."

One of the tougher individual questions are 'how should one deal in societal stances one doesn't personally agree with, but tacitly relies upon society at large to in fact take those disagreeable stances?' war, defense, vaccines, GMO's, wireless communications.

I call these the "you need me on that wall" things.