Originally Posted by
meanwhile
Perhaps you and other people inspired by LA should use this as a learning experience and start doing things because of their implicit moral value and not because a celebrity spokesperson has told you to? And even learn to judge the morality of peoples' actions rationally, rather than by their emotional appeal to you?
Very well put. However, I think you are fighting a losing cause by trying to convince people to see in anything other than black and white.
For some people, thinking rationally and understanding nuances such as a person that can do good and be selfish at the same time requires too much intellectual effort. And hero-worship clouds any remaining brain cells.
V.