I found myself thinking the other day of what it is that leftists expect of you in order to be considered a morally good person.
I can’t care about myself and my own wellbeing, because that makes me selfish and a bad person. And it’s not good enough for me to just care about my family or friends or the people around me, because that, too, is selfish and makes me a bad person.
In order to be a morally good person in their eyes, I have to care about strangers. Strangers who aren’t even part of my immediate community, but exist hundreds or thousands of miles away and realistically have absolutely zero positive impact on anyone or anything I actually care about.
And they don’t just expect me to care about these strangers in sort of a vague, cosmic sense, they expect me to go out of my way to care about them. They expect me to care so deeply about them that I would willingly and actively sacrifice my own interests and wellbeing for their benefit. They expect me to do this despite the fact that said strangers would almost certainly never do the same for me. In fact, in many cases, the interests of these strangers are in direct conflict with my own.
And it’s not even like a religion where if I do this, I earn some Good Boy Points that might benefit me in the afterlife. None of this gets me anything, except the approval of some other strangers.
That’s fucking exhausting. Imagine living like that.