Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

-Charles de Gaulle

Across Dimming Asterisms. My brain seems to have developed an addiction to it.

I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.

The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.

The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.

We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.

They meant the question showed a viewpoint that seemed to center entirely around you (also a rather libertarian thing, honestly).

‘Someone who would never build something for you’ sounds a bit like you’re expecting a tit-for-tat, I-do-this-for-you-so-you-have-to-do-something-for-me in everything, and that’s just not how societies work.

I’m curious; are you using that phrase to refer to, say, rich assholes who just take and take, or Nazi assholes that would rather cut off their own hands than build something a black person might use? Or are you using it to refer to people like severely disabled folks, or say, low-functioning autistic people, who society supports but who don’t have much capacity to ‘return the favor’?

Or are you just referring to future generations, who will be around after you’re gone?

Wow, a morality problem and an empathy problem, to their own kid no less. I’m sorry you’re dealing with that, and lessening contact (or cutting it) would be a perfectly understandable action.

I think it’s just your question comes off as nihilistic and a little bit libertarian, and neither of those is mentally healthy really

Spoiler: they won’t

‘I’m sorry you feel that way.’ He’s sorry you think people should have equal rights?

Your dad doesn’t have a political problem, he has a morality problem.