curl-6 said:
FloatingWaffles said:
Well for starters you're trying to compare Adolf Hitler to simply voting in an election. That's a big leap.
Even if that were the case though, again I wouldn't care. They have every right to vote or support whoever they want. While I might not agree with it, i'm not going to end a friendship with them or look at them any differently just because they have a certain opinion on something that is different from mine. Just because i'm friends with them and they support something that I don't, it doesn't mean I support it just by being friends with them. I became friends with them for the person they are, not what their opinions or beliefs are.
Otherwise what is the point of interracting with people if you're just going to not be friends with them if they don't have the same exact view you have on something, since everybody in the world has their own opinion.
I believe in the saying "Actions speak louder than words".
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See the way I see it, part of the "person they are" is their values. I wouldn't want to affiliate with somebody whose values were repugnant to me.
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I agree with that. We should all have personal standards that we hold not only ourselves to but the people we surround ourselves with. I was under a weird misconception due to things I had been first introduced to that somehow voting wasn't the same thing as doing the action yourself because voting didn't necessarily mean agreeing with everything of the person you were voting for, but it's certainly more complicated than that.
Edit: I've edited this comment to rewrite it as to more accurately portray what I meant to say at the time, as my original was worded poorly.
Last edited by FloatingWaffles - on 16 August 2021
