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_refugee_  ·  3144 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is There Anything Good About Men?

    Society loves a poet driven to suicide, but who produced lovely poems for thousands. Do you want to be that poet?




reguile  ·  3144 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't say that because my views of you, or because I thought you are a child, I said that because it's a rhetorical tool. Making the statement that being great, being a hero, is something that society "glamorizes" at the expense of all those who become heroes. And that nobody should actually want to be a hero, even in the culture that emphasizes it, because it comes a personal harm.