Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Another 12 Lies About Reality." video.

  1. 8:12 "Rather than actual moral action" kind of struck with me. Despite how cringe this connection is, I'd been reading some manga recently and the protagonist has a pretty bad personality on the surface as he openly mocks people, insults them to their face, questions authority, and even tried to seduce his kingdom's queen (all of this is mostly Because he doesn't care and actively WANTS the consequences of those actions). This is contrasted with (at this point) the antagonist who's on the surface very good and has gained the affection of other people seen to be good people. However, the person in question is actively trying to steal the place of someone else genuinely good because she doesn't think anyone can be that good and the people who's affection she gained shirked their duty to both the kingdom and their previous engagements and even break promises they'd made. This is compared to the protagonist actively tries to help people while they're down, attempts to comfort others, cover for misdeeds, and help even people he really kind of hates for the sake of people not dying. The comparison here is apt of people who have the right attitudes and present themselves as moral even though they'll lack it in action vs the person who's actually moral in action even if he doesn't present himself as such in manner. TL;DR this truth is basically the idea behind "kind but not nice" and "nice but not kind"
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