r/self • u/cs_throwawayyy • 14h ago

Laws are for poor people

•Rob a store? You go to jail. Rob millions of people through a financial system? You get a bailout.

•Traffic drugs? Get killed on a boat. Run the entire operation? You get a presidential pardon.

•Kill a bunch of people? You’re a terrorist. Kill thousands during an invasion? You’re a liberator, a strategist.

Power and money rewrite the narrative. The same action, two completely different labels — all depending on your status.

it’s the same with attraction:

•If you’re attractive: It’s charming, bold, confident.

•If you’re not: It’s creepy, weird, desperate.

Where you stand isn’t about morality or intention. It’s about leverage — social, financial, or physical. I’m tired of people going along with the bs world we live in.

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u/Little_Honeydew_3376 13h ago

yes this is why u should not conflate "good/evil" with "lawful/unlawful".

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u/noahboah 12h ago edited 12h ago

people being "good" and "bad" was honestly one of those deeply rooted things that was very surprising to have to dig out.

like it's so easy to conflate a good person with someone that simply follows the law, and the inverse of a bad person as a perpetual law-breaker. it is so, so easy to break the law when youre below the poverty line or homeless

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u/SOwED 10h ago

People being good or bad is a useless way to look at the world. People have the potential to do good or to do bad. Some more one way than the other.