• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
        3·
        9 days ago

        Yeah those memes are usually posted by people who are neither nice nor good.

        I’m more talking about people who will steal from you (or another not-nice activity), then play nice while denying it, then accuse you of being unhinged because that pisses you off, making you the bad guy because you swore or whatever.

        • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          That’s yet another type of “nice person” than who is cited in the OP. IMO, the OP is talking about the kind of people who want peace over security. The kind of people who don’t care about school shootings unless they happen at their school. The kind of people that would unwittingly befriend nazis because nazis can use polite words when in the “correct” company.

          Y’know, cliche American suburbanites.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

    ― Sophie Scholl