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Maybe liberals just care more about their community? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah, you're describing Moral licensing, and that's entirely plausible.

In this case it's "Littering is bad, but there's no trash cans here and I'm a generally good person so, just this once."

Except I suspect that "once" is really "every so often."