/lit/ - Literature

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Every person alive takes self-righteous pleasure in the failure of their enemies or opponents.
The best possible version of this spiteful joy would occur in highly ritualized social contexts like performative dueling or warfare, or incestuous political rivalries, where maintaining decorum is a preening self-righteous action for both parties involved.
Even then, it is a shallow facade which can collapse at any time (e.g. see what happened with American politics that has fluctuated between incestuous and murderous several times) and does not speak to the person's behavior outside of that context, like how European nobility would be very lenient to each other in war while peasant revolt leaders would be executed in the most shameful and prolonged manner possible.
Even acts of pure martyrdom like anon described above have the effect of placing a person morally above their attackers, and saints are definitionally exceptional. Sainthood and actual pureheartedness is near-mythical and might as well not exist.
I don't need clarify these points any further, since they should be self-evident anyways.

I told some lesbians that they were smart to buy a combustion-engined car over an EV, because of the inevitability of rolling blackouts in the near future, and one of them told me I make her want to drink which is why they like hanging out with me.