Reminds me of Jon Stewart's great quote: "If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values. They're... hobbies."
Re:I hereby resign
by bloggergirl on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:17PM
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That is excellent. Like everything Jon Stewart says.
Heh. You don't know the grandparent poster, but I'm the callow jacknape. He's slagging off everyone in the world, I'm only pointing out that it might not be the world that's the problem. And he's the upvoted one, on this thread at least.
What's moral courage again? It's saying what's unpopular, because it's right. And it's right to note that the holier-than-thou who seek to lecture the world on all their sins (real and imagined) are generally self-important jackasses rather than people to be respected, let alone imitated.
It's not called "moral no-shit-sherlock-easy-choice." It's called moral courage because of people like you.
(full disclosure: I don't know the grandparent poster, I don't know his situation. But I do know how bad you can be made to look when making the right choice, usually by callow jackanapes.)