This. Statements like the grandparents are in the general category of
- "life isn't fair"
- "people are bigoted against the outgroup",
- "brutal wars of expansion are a thing".
Like, yeah. Obviously. But that's supposed to be the kind of thing you push back against, when you don't like the result, not fatalistically accept as some fundamental invariant of reality. That's how progress happens.
- "life isn't fair"
- "people are bigoted against the outgroup",
- "brutal wars of expansion are a thing".
Like, yeah. Obviously. But that's supposed to be the kind of thing you push back against, when you don't like the result, not fatalistically accept as some fundamental invariant of reality. That's how progress happens.