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mirages-and-polar-ice · 25 days ago

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Being interested in British polar explorers is such a huge learning curve in empathy and understanding human nature because we’re faced with hundreds of men that agreed with the British Empire to the point of actively helping it but we see past that. We see the people beneath the morally fucked views and we love them. And I think that is such an important skill to have because you’re always going to meet people that you don’t completely agree with, that’s just life. But if you hated everyone who you didn’t fully agree with, there’d be no one left on earth for you to love

#that and #having morally bad opinions doesn’t automatically make someone a bad person #just like having morally good opinions doesn’t automatically make someone a good person #and yeah #we ignore it most of the time #but that’s what you do when you love someone isn’t it #you ignore the things you don’t like about them as much as you possibly can #and almost everyone learns to do that at some point in their life #and maybe that’s not always for the best #but it is if their a genuinely good person underneath it all #omg no #*they’re #i’m not changing it #i’m on mobile #but i’m ashamed #and with these guys it’s the extreme of that #honestly #if you can learn to love a 19th - early 20th century british polar explorer you can learn to love anyone #tarra speaks #tarra’s opinions #polar exploration #polar explorers #british navy #british empire

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