{"id":21168,"date":"2026-05-27T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/if-the-only-thing-keeping-a-person-decent-is-the-expectation-of-divine-reward-then\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:56:22","slug":"if-the-only-thing-keeping-a-person-decent-is-the-expectation-of-divine-reward-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/if-the-only-thing-keeping-a-person-decent-is-the-expectation-of-divine-reward-then\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has upvoted this into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/CypT8TdPo_bc2NsVziyx_piYZtj2V-j6AbTYbFyE7GE.jpeg?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=389130de22fe07adffb7dfcbd54e12f6df939557\" alt=\"&quot;If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then brother, that person is a piece of shit.&quot; This quote stuck with me for a long time. Substitute &quot;divine reward&quot; with fear of retribution or any kind of reward, and you have the entire human condition, described here\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>The comments section is going to be interesting on this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1tp4h2r\/if_the_only_thing_keeping_a_person_decent_is_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has upvoted this into the stratosphere. The comments section is going to be interesting on this one. Source: r\/videos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1tp4h2r\/if_the_only_thing_keeping_a_person_decent_is_the\/","_sweary_views":24160,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}