OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES
If you must be immoral, be honest about it
By Dan Reznichenko | September 12, 2022Nobody wants to admit that they’re making a choice that is some shade of gray.
Dan Reznichenko is a Trinity senior and an opinion managing editor of The Chronicle's 119th volume.
Nobody wants to admit that they’re making a choice that is some shade of gray.
As Duke students, it’s incumbent on us to seek new ideas. To do that responsibly, first recognize that there’s nothing noble about compromise for its own sake.
Seriously, will a block on campus change the frats’ treatment of women and minorities? Will SOFC money make them less hostile to poor people?
Fat shaming--this idea that we can bully people into losing weight--is blind and dumb.
While they aren’t brilliant, Marvel movies and Drake songs are serviceable. For somebody who is busy, that’s a fine deal to make.
If your unhealthy coping mechanisms are turned inwards—if you suffer those quietly, too—you’re a bona-fide ‘healthy person’ in most people's eyes.
In the pursuit of academic, professional, aesthetic validation, we abuse our minds and our bodies through overwork.
That is the truly horrific thing about pessimism towards humanity: it perpetuates itself.
We might be better off fixing the conditions which made someone break the rules, rather than wasting energy punishing them for it.
Something tells me that I could work every day of the year, and be happy about it, if we stopped treating productivity like a lifestyle which we adopt for the weekday.
This is the general pattern of the column: the author will throw a weak rhetorical punch before running away. In the end, all we come away with is knowledge of the things he dislikes—a boring read made confusing by its lack of purposeful moves.