• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I mean, I did say for a pope there.

    And it’s possible to be flawed and still have compassion. Should he have done better? Absolutely. But he was better than the pope before him, and the one before that, alllll the way back.

    It’s okay to recognize the good in a person while also recognising the bad.

    However, this is c/lemmybewholesome and it wouldn’t have been appropriate for me to bring up the bad in a top level comment.

    It’s fine in child comments, imo, but if a community is geared around things being uplifting and positive, a top level comment should stay focused on those things. It’s one of those things where if I have to say something that drags down the overall thread, I shouldn’t say it at all. So I focused on the good side of things.

    And, again, I did say that he was decent for a pope. I acknowledged that he had flaws indirectly in as friendly a way as possible by phrasing things that way