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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works

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Anon lives in the midwest (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Right I get that, but the underlying value that the prohibitions are designed around is promoting humility and preventing vanity.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If the jewelery was given as a gift in good will, it would be worse to reject it or to accept it and never use it.

[–] Baaahb@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds like pride and pride sounds like sin!

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But they're people. People can revisit and reconsider the values they live by. They can change things despite the tradition they were born into or even the tradition they helped establish. That allows the society to progress and survive changing conditions. Let's support it.