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Originally Posted by thenewguy
You couldn't have missed my point more completely.
What I am saying has nothing to do with the majority, moral or otherwise. For that matter it has nothing to do with anyone buy myself. When I talked about a moral compass, I meant my own moral compass.
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Okay, I can see this as one interpretation of what you're saying...
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To your example - if the people around you attach a stigma to you having AIDS, you might want to get around some new people. But if you're afraid that other people will stigmatize you for having AIDS, that speaks much more about you than it does about them.
Why not try being yourself and letting the people who are offended get offended? Then they'll stay that much farther away from you. I would say you'll be in better company in the long run.
If you believe you have a reputation to uphold, you will consequently be limited by your self-centered perspective of others' opinion of how you're "living upto" that reputation. Why live based on what other people think?
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Because you
must live with other people. It's one thing to ignore a couple of strangers (depending on who those strangers are and what they're capable of) but if most people will systemically descriminate against you, then you've got a problem whether you wanted one or not! By then, it's simple prudence to keep your secret to yourself and, again, that doesn't mean you don't want to be able to talk about it.
It's not that you're ashamed, it's that you know that
people are idiots...