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by hdjjhhvvhga 1752 days ago
I understand what you feel, but I don't share that feeling. These people are free citizens, they can write what they want. The crucial question is: why should I read it? In general, I read things that will increase my knowledge in the areas I'm interested in. If I'm interested in moral things, I don't have to believe in whatever someone wrote, but I can try and test any system in practice myself.

In this way, for example, I learned that 99% of the time it makes little sense to get confrontational but it's better (for both sides) to try to resolve things peacefully. I tried both approaches repeatedly and that's why I know this. But if I wrote it down, why would anyone believe me? How would it change things if I made a lot of money or not? It makes no sense.

Everybody needs to put these things to test and see for themselves how they feel when they do good things, when they do bad things, what works in the long run and so on. Reading others reflections might be inspiring at times but rarely corresponds to specific real-life situations we need to deal with.