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"I don't condone it... but I understand."

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dojokun

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What action do you not condone, but understand?

I know I've seen lots of people here "not condone, but understand" vigilante justice done to rapists/child molesters, etc.

For me, it's gotta be road-rage related violence. People who don't use their turn signals, cut people off, or don't pay attention because they are on the phone or something... all would not get sympathy from me if an affected driver ran them off the road, rushed over to them, pulled them out of their cars, and proceeded to inflict bodily harm upon them.
 
This went off the deep end fairly quickly...

Probably understand anything short of a full violent act.

And cause I'm from the future, I agree with Leona. Instant Ramen!
 
understanding the alternative seems like the first step in finding an opinion. Unless you have religion or your parents informing your opinions the answer ought to be every stance you current hold.
 

Definitely. My closest buddy that struggled with heroin addiction (not shooting up, but the morphine pills he acquired from his best friends mother) has had an incredibly hard life. His parents have been divorced since we became friends in like first grade, and his mother killed herself our Sophomore year of high school I believe. I know it is not the way out, but god damn, how can you blame him?

He is off of it now as far as I know :)
 
People who give up on life, both in terms of suicide, and those who just take drugs or sit at home all day doing nothing.


Also pretty much any crime outside of child molestation.
 
Theft to feed ones family. Will never condone theft, but if a man/woman does it as a last resort for the soul purpose of keeping there children alive, I can understand that. Same goes for many other things in life.
 
Phoning up ten different taxis and limousine for the guy on the other side of the street. Perhaps order him a pizza for good measure.
 
People being driven to acts of disproportionate rage from spending an extended period of time in an environment where they are constantly subjected to a constant stream of small, mundane negative things, even if each of those things are incredibly inconsequential by themselves.

People who refuse help because they were driven to a state of learned helplessness by an environment where authority figures slowly and methodically stamped out all self-preserving thoughts and self-esteem.

Violence carried out in the name of revenge over loved ones.
 
Hitting a child. As an elementary school teacher, I would never ever ever ever ever ever ever eveeeeeeeeeeeer do so, and I would never condone it...but goddamn if I don't understand why some people just lose their shit and backhand a child. I put up with a large group of them 7-8 hours a day and while I love them dearly most of the time, jesus fucking christ once in a while a small voice in the back of my head just wants to powerbomb them through a table.
 
Was literally about to type this, unfortunately, my friends seem to say i have no morals because of it. Although not trying to be edgy but i don't care about morals anymore.

I think being a really empathetic person requires a certain dismissal of concrete moral values. I scrapped my morality when I was younger and built it back up into something that more or less resembles what it was before, but is fundamentally different for having been rebuilt in the first place, if that makes sense. I believe in right and wrong, but not in an overarching universal sense. This philosophy has served me pretty well so far.
 
Fast food. If you're just being lazy and eat it all the damn time, no sympathy. But if you really have no time to grab some real food, I get it.
 
Atheism.

I understand it, but I do not think it is the answer. I might be dead wrong, but I will only find out when I am dead. Or wait, I wont! :D

...anyway.
 
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