you are obliged to not harm
you are not obliged to help
i absolutely could leave someone behind if they had repeatedly done me wrong, and this would be the wages of their sins against me, it would not be my judgement no matter how likely their death might be in the absence of my help, that would decide if they die or not
i am not going to be the turtle carrying the scorpion across the flooding river
it is not a quality of goodness to comfort evil, in fact this is the hardest thing for most people to understand, you must choose who you associate with and it is incumbent upon you as an aspiring righteous person to not consort with people who delight in iniquity
sometimes it is said that doing things that don't benefit evil people is doing them evil - it even is written that way sometimes in biblical texts, but it is a nonsense way of describing it... not doing something is not the same as doing something, inaction is a decision, as is action, but inaction to help evil is not evil, it is actually good
idk how many times i see it in many moral fables in novels and movies where a person who would be categorised as a 2, is redeemed by a 1 refusing to help anymore, it's a universal pattern and that's just life
i'm not gonna refuse to help anyone who has not established a reputation for mischief, but after i see it happen several times my interactions with them can only be purely self serving and that includes abandonment, because if they are a 2, that might be the act (or more exactly decision) that helps them change their side
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2024-07-20 13:10:52
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