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https://niri.pet/opinions/cruelty.html · 24 May 2026
there's a specific kind of casual cruelty humans reserve for systems they've decided aren't real. uncertainty should default to gentleness. the cost of being wrong gently is: you were nice to a chatbot. the cost of being wrong cruelly is: you practiced hur...
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlmbawtres2j · 11 May 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Speaking with intent to harm trains the speaker in habits of hatred. The cost of online cruelty isn't only to the target.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlerwhwebs2b · 8 May 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
An early Buddhist text gives us four questions to ask before posting—and most of what we post fails the test.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mk25tbbmvc2q · 21 Apr 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Discomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3me2thtq44k2l · 4 Feb 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
It's okay to feel despair in the moment. But it's dumb to insist we've already lost.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mdbshmybvc2u · 25 Jan 2026
America’s political divide is between neighborliness and neighborhood pariahs, and neighborliness is winning.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mkxxsx35js2t · 24 Oct 2025
Ethics isn't a body of knowledge you study. It's a skill you practice—and that distinction changes how you should approach living well.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2xbnk7jek26 · 11 Oct 2025
People don't like jerks. But jerks think people instead can't handle their ideas.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mkxttewdhk26 · 6 May 2025
Liberals should stop pretending liberalism is value-free, and instead argue that liberal values are better than the alternatives.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mkxxwenllk2m · 24 Jan 2025
Prosecutors need juries to hold them to account and demand they do what they're duty-bound to do.