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flyingoctopus
· 5 years ago
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Uh oh... Guess I shouldn't be famous then
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funkmasterrex
· 5 years ago
Know the best way to prevent this? Don't become famous. This is nothing new... if you think it is you need a history lesson.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Many people don’t seek fame though. They have a passion or want to do something positive, or they have a skill and are just trying to make a living off of it. Then they make some breakthrough, or they do something that gets noticed, maybe they are just an average person who gets captured doing something by someone else and go viral. Maybe they are trying to enact positive social or political change and find themselves the spokes person for a cause suddenly. To say that by virtue of having done some random thing they should be expected to forfeit their identity and have their privacy become open to public discourse is not just unjust, but it is destructive. Should anyone who doesn’t want this fate avoid ever doing anything that anyone may find interesting, noteworthy, novel or compelling? Avoid art, public service, all achievement, and contact with the world in general?
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funkmasterrex
· 5 years ago
True... being thrust into fame is different... but honestly? Maybe.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Yes! Thank you! If we can all just please stop judging people based on the things they do and say, and instead just judge them based on how they tell us they want their public image to be... wait... no...? I think.... that doesn’t sound right either...? In seriousness- yes- people can change, people can have “bad periods” in which they say or do things out of character (depression and drugs are well known for this...) Some things are very relevant, unlikely to change, etc even if they are “in the past.” When a 14yo posts a racial slur in a chat room, it’s not excusable, but I’m not likely to assume they are racist 30 years later off one slur. When a 30 year old posts racial slurs and 3 years later wants me to think they are “past that” I get more skeptical. And when a persons actions and words in the present reinforce those past events? Age doesn’t always bring the wisdom to change, sometimes it just brings the wisdom of how to better cover up your flaws better.
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regretfulforeigner
· 5 years ago
sometimes it's justified, in many cases it is near ridiculous the extent this happens. Our society has become too detached from the concepts of personal growth. People make mistakes, and its important we learn from them (unless said people learn nothing, in which case there's rlly not much helping them lol)
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jensensbooty
· 5 years ago
I love vegietales
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alekazam
· 5 years ago
But do you love Jesus?
jensensbooty
· 5 years ago
Yes
