Hello users of hexbear:
Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community !mutual_aid@hexbear.net
We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual’s mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.
In addition, we will maintain a strict “No critical comments or meta comments” on a mutual aid post.
This post is to discuss the mutual aid community’s rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.
We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.
Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.
Thank you
Sure, but you also have to be honest with yourself that this is about your ego and wanting to maximize the good that YOU do according to YOUR beliefs. I also doubt that this same calculus applies if the person who might be spending money on drugs is more closely related to you rather than some person on the internet.
This isn’t some self evident logical principle, this is a reaction to your own feelings and ideas. Mutual aid is not about purchasing the most “alleviation” or “goodness”. You’re exhibiting the same form of thinking that calls things like breakfast programs frivolous luxury. The comm is called mutual aid because mutual aid is unconditional. You’re attempting to make personal a normative value judgement objective rather than what it is, subjective.
Someone is saying, I have a problem and I need help. You are saying, there’s plenty of people with problems in the market so I’m only going to help if I like the way you solve your problem. That’s not charity or mutual aid, that’s an investment.
No that’s total fucking cope lol.
Me saying that I would rather my limited money for charity go to feeding somebody in need rather than someone using it for recreational drugs is not a sign that I have an ego problem.
I’m not saying you have an ego problem. I’m saying charity/mutual aid is a selfless act and being judgemental is not selfless.
You’re nowhere near an ego problem. An ego problem is more like you wouldn’t donate to charity until you had a 9 figure net worth based on you inventing inventing something like a toothpaste lid and you’d start a small charitable foundation which is just make work job / capitalist training camp for every one of your kids.
I am genuinely not being judgemental I’m just trying to make sure the limited resources do the maximum amount of good.