• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I remember standing in line at a liquor store, watching a (likely) homeless woman carefully pocket some food item. I said nothing. I talked about it the next day at work. A coworker suggested I’d just passed an “ethics test.”

    That was many years ago, before I’d established my current worldview. Today, I’d be silently rooting for them. “Get some food!”

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t call that necessarily passing an ethics test. You could’ve wanted to say something, but were too lazy.

      Not doing something wrong is different from doing something right.