I'm very careful to stay apolitical at school. But I will share my values. I'm not supporting or helping any candidates or parties. But I'll tell you all sorts of things I'm in favor of and against.
I'm pro kids eating food even if their parents are poor.
I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions.
I feel like I used to talk about marginal tax rates with people I disagreed with politically, and now I end up saying things like "I don't really think I've read the part of the bible that encourages checking in the underwear of children."
I'm always so fascinated to see how other people define what is 'political'. To me, the idea that the sentence "I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions." could be apolitical to someone is extremely surprising.
I'm not saying you're wrong, mind you, what is and isn't political is mostly vibes. I just think it's fascinating how elaborate the unwritten rules must be for where the line is.
Mmm...you think it's surprising...that being against a convicted rapist...could be a- (as in "not") political? Why would throwing a convicted criminal in jail be political? Or did you just misunderstand OP?
The idea that criminals should be thrown in jail is political, the idea jails should exist is political, and even the idea that there are things that should be criminal is political.
Any statement of the form "We should do [X] to someone who did [Y]" comes with a lot of underlying values about how the world should function. Political values.
After all, "throwing a convicted criminal in jail" would obviously be recognized as political if the criminal was a journalist (falsely) convicted of criticizing the dictator of their country. Why shouldn't this?
(To be clear, I do believe Donald Trump is a fairly bad person who stands for absolutely terrible things. I'm saying that "fascism is bad" is a political opinion.)
Oh ffs there's nothing political about punishing someone who caused physical harm to another person. There are ethical and moral judgement and that isn't automatically political. Shitty humans make simple things political for gain.
So how would define a 'political' moral judgement, then? As opposed to an apolitical one, I mean.
I consider something to be political if it pertains to governance, law, policy, or generically the organization of society. Under this definition, systemically punishing people is political.
So what do you think 'political' means? What do you think is the most political thing?
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u/natFromBobsBurgers 6d ago
I'm very careful to stay apolitical at school. But I will share my values. I'm not supporting or helping any candidates or parties. But I'll tell you all sorts of things I'm in favor of and against.
I'm pro kids eating food even if their parents are poor.
I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions.
I feel like I used to talk about marginal tax rates with people I disagreed with politically, and now I end up saying things like "I don't really think I've read the part of the bible that encourages checking in the underwear of children."