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Are you really in a position to criticize others on what they consume?
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I choose not to drink alcohol. When I see other people posting about what they drink, I don't go around telling other people they shouldn't. These are personal choices. We're both aware of the potential health consequences of our chosen actions. I believe people should be free to do what they want as long as they aren't hurting other people. I don't want to think the worst of you, but the only reason I think of for you to make your comment was from a position of moral superiority. I know I've been guilty of that before and been ashamed of it later. Did I just catch you on a bad day?
Maybe I misread this interaction, and maybe it's not my business, but this reads to me as a judgement on blarghly for both implying judgment on other people and for drinking (I doubt it would have been used as an example of hypocrisy otherwise), then I read it as about how you make the superior decision to not judge people for drinking.
Yes, that was my intention.
No, that is NOT my intention.
The drinking example was that blarghly was clearly criticizing other for their choices of what they put in their bodies because it is unhealthy while ignoring blarghly is also putting something in their body (alcohol) which could easily be criticized for being unhealthy. blarghly was demonstrating "Rules for thee, but not for me". That rubbed me the wrong way.
If you're referring to the later posts in the thread, you should notice I was using blarghly's exact words except replacing "sugary cereal" with "alcohol". I was doing that NOT because I care they drink, but to show blarghly how unfaithful their argument was but showing it in the context of blarghly's own vice. I honestly don't care if people drink or not. I choose not to, but I also don't criticize others that choose to. What I was criticizing blarghly for was their hypocrisy, not their drinking.
I get that it's meant to pick out hypocrisy, however I keep reading a deeper implication. Maybe I'm just reading things that aren't there, but if drinking was virtuous, the right thing to do, would it be hypocritical for blarghly to drink? I don't read it that way. I interpret that it's treated as hypocrisy to mean that drinking is bad, that blarghly probably shouldn't drink.
They are equally neutral because the choices we make for ourselves don't affect others. blarghly chose to think the opposite of that, that those that eat sugary cereals, and the people that eat them, are making bad choices.
Were the original subtext your only context clues, I could understand that take. However, I have repeatedly clarified that I don't care other people drink. With that, I'm not sure why you still feel the subtextual reading is the right one. If you don't trust my clarification, then okay, but that means there's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise so I'm not sure if there's more to talk about.
Okay, knowing that you view it as neutral helps. For some reason I didn't get that.