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As I said, I cannot reduce these principles to such a degree that the concept will be diluted.
Then I put it to you that there isn't any concept there.
That's your preogative.
prerogative. sorry. i just spelled it wrong the other day and had to look it up.
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None of this deals with a central objection - not all harm is caused by retaliation, nor is all harmful intent merely the product of ones environment.

A good example of the first case is a pedophile. A good example of the second case is a true sociopath.

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In your what, 4-5 years, of presenting and discussing this online, how many people have stated they felt the concepts or your arguments were compelling?
Some people will only accept empirical proof, and therefore they discredit the book from the very outset. Others, as I said, argue that man has free will and never understood the author's definition of determnism which reconciles the two opposing ideologies. Some philosophers, especially of the Nietzschian persuation, believe conscience is heritable and therefore can be excluded as the basis for further discussion. For every person I talked to, there was a definite reason why the conversation ended, but that does not mean this knowledge is flawed.

Lots of ideas are flawed, but are refined and researched further if the basic concept is compelling enough to people and/or shows promise. I think your presenting it as a scientific hypothesis is leading to trouble as well. It is philosophy from my reading, not science.

I have read (skimmed in the case of the freeratio archives of 3300 posts) your previous discussions at three different forums, and didn't see anyone agree that the concept was unique or enlightening (and you have talked to what, several dozen people?). Where else have you presented this info? Has it been well received anywhere?
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I can't believe that I read this thread thus far. I'm certainly going no farther.
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None of this deals with a central objection - not all harm is caused by retaliation, nor is all harmful intent merely the product of ones environment.

A good example of the first case is a pedophile. A good example of the second case is a true sociopath.

If you need a case-study, study our very own Brandon and wonder if you really want to let him loose on your blameless society...
This is exactly why I cannot have a fair discussion because you obviously do not understand the principles of this book. He never said we should stop blaming. Gandhi and his people turned the other cheek and got struck on the first cheek over and over again. Many died as a consequence.

Of course not all harm is caused by retaliation; it is caused by a first blow. A pedophile has struck a first blow to another. You are also looking through the lens of a free will environment. When this law becomes a permanent condition, children will not grow up to become pedophiles.

As far as your second case, a true sociopath is obviously mentally ill and could not be let loose if he was so psychotic that his conscience was severed. But the majority of pertetrators could never repeat the same behavior under changed conditions because they could not justify what they were able to justify in the past.
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In your what, 4-5 years, of presenting and discussing this online, how many people have stated they felt the concepts or your arguments were compelling?
Some people will only accept empirical proof, and therefore they discredit the book from the very outset. Others, as I said, argue that man has free will and never understood the author's definition of determnism which reconciles the two opposing ideologies. Some philosophers, especially of the Nietzschian persuation, believe conscience is heritable and therefore can be excluded as the basis for further discussion. For every person I talked to, there was a definite reason why the conversation ended, but that does not mean this knowledge is flawed.
It has never been marketed or distributed. I don't need anyone to tell me that 3 is to 6 what 4 is to 8. I know this knowledge is undeniable and if you don't want to go any further, that's fine with me.


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Lots of ideas are flawed, but are refined and researched further if the basic concept is compelling enough to people and/or shows promise. I think your presenting it as a scientific hypothesis is leading to trouble as well. It is philosophy from my reading, not science.

I have read (skimmed in the case of the freeratio archives of 3300 posts) your previous discussions at three different forums, and didn't see anyone agree that the concept was unique or enlightening (and you have talked to what, several dozen people?). Where else have you presented this info? Has it been well received anywhere?
If you want to take this as a red flag, what can I say? That's why I believe the internet can be used for good or not. In this case, looking up my history and using it against me by assuming these people are correct in their analysis, is a sad state of affairs. Moreover, the fact that this group of people did not accept the premises for various reasons, and therefore refused to read the book (without even considering the possibility that these premises may be correct), is unfortunate. I realize the discussion turned into quite a tome.

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None of this deals with a central objection - not all harm is caused by retaliation, nor is all harmful intent merely the product of ones environment.

A good example of the first case is a pedophile. A good example of the second case is a true sociopath.

If you need a case-study, study our very own Brandon and wonder if you really want to let him loose on your blameless society...
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This is exactly why I cannot have a fair discussion because you obviously do not understand the principles of this book. He never said we should stop blaming. Gandhi and his people turned the other cheek and got struck on the first cheek over and over again. Many died as a consequence.

Of course not all harm is caused by retaliation; it is caused by a first blow. A pedophile has struck a first blow to another. You are also looking through the lens of a free will environment. When this law becomes a permanent condition, children will not grow up to become pedophiles
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Yes they will. Now show me why what you say is more likely than what I say?

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As far as your second case, a true sociopath is obviously mentally ill and could not be let loose if he was so psychotic that his conscience was severed. But the majority of pertetrators could never repeat the same behavior under changed conditions because they could not justify what they were able to justify in the past.
Psychotic means not to know the difference between fantasy and reality. A sociopath is someone who knows what is right and what is wrong, but sees no reason to differentiate between the two as regards to his own behavior.

There is strong evidence for a genetic component for both conditions. Your system would not remove these people, and they would make your system impossible - and they are just some extreme examples! There are many intermediate one. There is a good reason the revolution still has not happened.
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You have been either unwilling, or unable, to describe what exactly about the concept you find so personally compelling. "Just look at it, it is apparent how important it is" is not a description. You have also been unable to explain exactly why others' interpretations are wrong in any kind of detail. Again, mostly "You are wrong, if you understood it you wouldn't think that"...so help us understand. What exactly are we not understanding?

I did not see anything in what I read to make me want to read further...nothing even got a "hmmm, interesting". Maybe I am unique in my interpretation of the work as "meh", and maybe you are unique in your interpretation of the work as "world changing", or maybe it's a split.

I reviewed the other discussions, and asked you the question, to see if anyone, besides you and the deceased author, find the idea very important, or valuable, or compelling, or even mildly revelatory.
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Hang on - if a pedophile struck a first blow, then his harmful desire was not a retaliation. Nor does this desire necessarily go away when he realizes no-one is making him harm children.

So where does it come from? All evil is A) rationalized or B) a retaliation in your philosophy. But a pedophile, while he may well rationalize after the fact that his act was not so bad, does not do so when giving in to the urge to have sex with very young children, and thus causing harm. The majority know very well that it is harm they are causing - the problem us that they are overcome by a desire to do so.

Do they not invalidate your theory?
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None of this deals with a central objection - not all harm is caused by retaliation, nor is all harmful intent merely the product of ones environment.

A good example of the first case is a pedophile. A good example of the second case is a true sociopath.

If you need a case-study, study our very own Brandon and wonder if you really want to let him loose on your blameless society...
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This is exactly why I cannot have a fair discussion because you obviously do not understand the principles of this book. He never said we should stop blaming. Gandhi and his people turned the other cheek and got struck on the first cheek over and over again. Many died as a consequence.

Of course not all harm is caused by retaliation; it is caused by a first blow. A pedophile has struck a first blow to another. You are also looking through the lens of a free will environment. When this law becomes a permanent condition, children will not grow up to become pedophiles
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Yes they will. Now show me why what you say is more likely than what I say?
Your question involves understanding the discovery, and I cannot simplify it in order to answer your question adequately. All I can tell you is that when children grow up in a world such as the one described in the book, there is no way they could turn out to have these urges (and if they did they would never be able to act on them), which are often a result of some kind of trauma growing up.

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Psychotic means not to know the difference between fantasy and reality. A sociopath is someone who knows what is right and what is wrong, but sees no reason to differentiate between the two as regards to his own behavior.
Knowing the difference between right and wrong, they would never be able to hurt others, but it is difficult to imagine this when you have no idea how different the environment is going to be.

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There is strong evidence for a genetic component for both conditions. Your system would not remove these people, and they would make your system impossible - and they are just some extreme examples! There are many intermediate one. There is a good reason the revolution still has not happened.
The revolution hasn't happened because this knowledge is for the most part, unknown. This system (as you call it) would not alter someone's genetics, but it would prevent those genetics from being expressed. We all have certain predispositions (even when it comes to our health), but if the environment does not aggravate those genetic tendencies, they will never have a chance to cause havoc.
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All I can tell you is that when children grow up in a world such as the one described in the book, there is no way they could turn out to have these urges (and if they did they would never be able to act on them), which are often a result of some kind of trauma growing up.
What makes you think pedophilia is caused by childhood trauma? As the author died prior to the enormous recent progress in neuroscience, he didn't have nearly the knowledge we do now.
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Hang on - if a pedophile struck a first blow, then his harmful desire was not a retaliation. Nor does this desire necessarily go away when he realizes no-one is making him harm children.
What I am saying is that this is not a genetic defect but has everything to do with his environment. If he is unable to control his urges, then he will be treated in the same way he would be in today's world. The only difference is that even in his confinement, he would be treated with compassion.

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So where does it come from? All evil is A) rationalized or B) a retaliation in your philosophy. But a pedophile, while he may well rationalize after the fact that his act was not so bad, does not do so when giving in to the urge to have sex with very young children, and thus causing harm. The majority know very well that it is harm they are causing - the problem us that they are overcome by a desire to do so.

Do they not invalidate your theory?
You are taking a very small segment of society that will not have this issue in the next generation. Those who have these urges and cannot help themselves (because the desire is too strong) will need to be supervised at all times, just as they are today. Rationalizations offer people what they need to satisfy their desires, but when they can no longer rationalize their behavior, even in this generation, you will see a great change. This in no way discredits the knowledge in this book.
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Your question involves understanding the discovery, and I cannot simplify it in order to answer your question adequately. All I can tell you is that when children grow up in a world such as the one described in the book, there is no way they could turn out to have these urges (and if they did they would never be able to act on them), which are often a result of some kind of trauma growing up.
That is tantamount to saying that to believe it will work, I must first believe it will work, and makes it sound like the woo-woo train has come to town. Also, you are saying that all desire to harm is environmental in origin. This is simply not the case, or at least I know of no reason to assume this is the case.

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As far as your second case, a true sociopath is obviously mentally ill and could not be let loose if he was so psychotic that his conscience was severed. But the majority of pertetrators could never repeat the same behavior under changed conditions because they could not justify what they were able to justify in the past.
Only if you decide that all intent to harm is either retaliation or caused by environment. Again, this is not the case, or at least not proven or supported in any way.

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Knowing the difference between right and wrong, they would never be able to hurt others, but it is difficult to imagine this when you have no idea how different the environment is going to be.
This is not the case. Sociopaths know exactly what the rest of the world feels are right or wrong, they just see no reason to adhere to those standards.

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The revolution hasn't happened because this knowledge is for the most part, unknown. This system (as you call it) would not alter someone's genetics, but it would prevent those genetics from being expressed. We all have certain predispositions (even when it comes to our health), but if the environment does not aggravate those genetic tendencies, they will never have a chance to cause havoc.
Again, you stress environment and relegate the genetic component to insignificance without the slightest bit of support for this theory. We are to take it on faith that this is so.

I still think there is a good reason the revolution never happened.
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All I can tell you is that when children grow up in a world such as the one described in the book, there is no way they could turn out to have these urges (and if they did they would never be able to act on them), which are often a result of some kind of trauma growing up.
What makes you think pedophilia is caused by childhood trauma? As the author died prior to the enormous recent progress in neuroscience, he didn't have nearly the knowledge we do now.
It might not be caused by childhood trauma; that's just one of the possibilities. Whatever the impulse is that drives these people, under these new conditions, someone who has these fantasies would not be able to act on them. In order to cause this kind of harm one would have to have a rationalization that justifies their behavior, for without it, their conscience would eat at them. When someone knows they are doing something wrong (and that is everyone who can think rationally), they have to have some kind of justification for what they are about to do.
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Your question involves understanding the discovery, and I cannot simplify it in order to answer your question adequately. All I can tell you is that when children grow up in a world such as the one described in the book, there is no way they could turn out to have these urges (and if they did they would never be able to act on them), which are often a result of some kind of trauma growing up.
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That is tantamount to saying that to believe it will work, I must first believe it will work, and makes it sound like the woo-woo train has come to town. Also, you are saying that all desire to harm is environmental in origin. This is simply not the case, or at least I know of no reason to assume this is the case.
Not at all. Conscience works in a very predictable way. Living in a free will environment (an environment of blame and punishment) actually gives us the ability to ease our conscience when we know what we are doing is wrong. But when we can no longer ease our conscience (which goes back to the two-sided equation, which you don't understand and maybe never will because we won't get that far), the mere contemplation of these acts of violence will never be a preferable choice under these conditions.

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Only if you decide that all intent to harm is either retaliation or caused by environment. Again, this is not the case, or at least not proven or supported in any way.
In order to hurt another, either deliberately or carelessly, man
must be able to derive greater, not less, satisfaction which means
that self-preservation demands and justifies this; that he was
previously hurt in some way and finds it preferable to strike back
‘an eye for an eye,’ which he can also justify, or else he knows
absolutely and positively that he would be blamed by the person he
hurt and others if they knew. Blame itself which is a condition of
free will and a part of the present environment permits the
consideration of hurt for it is the price man is willing to pay for the
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This is not the case. Sociopaths know exactly what the rest of the world feels are right or wrong, they just see no reason to adhere to those standards.
Because they can justify it.

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The revolution hasn't happened because this knowledge is for the most part, unknown. This system (as you call it) would not alter someone's genetics, but it would prevent those genetics from being expressed. We all have certain predispositions (even when it comes to our health), but if the environment does not aggravate those genetic tendencies, they will never have a chance to cause havoc.
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Again, you stress environment and relegate the genetic component to insignificance without the slightest bit of support for this theory. We are to take it on faith that this is so.
I am not relegating the genetic component to insignificance, but the truth is it takes genetics combined with the environment to create the monsters we see in today's society. There is a lot of support for this observation, even without understanding this discovery.

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What I am saying is that this is not a genetic defect but has everything to do with his environment. If he is unable to control his urges, then he will be treated in the same way he would be in today's world. The only difference is that even in his confinement, he would be treated with compassion.
My point is that we don't know that. Nor do we know it is the current atmosphere of blame that makes people pedophiles. Really, we don't know what it is that makes some people crave sex with children, and we have not reason to believe they will disappear in your new environment.

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So where does it come from? All evil is A) rationalized or B) a retaliation in your philosophy. But a pedophile, while he may well rationalize after the fact that his act was not so bad, does not do so when giving in to the urge to have sex with very young children, and thus causing harm. The majority know very well that it is harm they are causing - the problem us that they are overcome by a desire to do so.

Do they not invalidate your theory?
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You are taking a very small segment of society that will not have this issue in the next generation. Those who have these urges and cannot help themselves (because the desire is too strong) will need to be supervised at all times, just as they are today. Rationalizations offer people what they need to satisfy their desires, but when they can no longer rationalize their behavior, even in this generation, you will see a great change. This in no way discredits the knowledge in this book.
But it does - in that we have no reason to assume that whatever it is that makes people do these things today will go away in the new environment. It is to be taken as an article of faith.
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Are you the author's daughter? He thanks his children at the end and one is named Janis. Is that you?
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It might not be caused by childhood trauma; that's just one of the possibilities. Whatever the impulse is that drives these people, under these new conditions, someone who has these fantasies would not be able to act on them. In order to cause this kind of harm one would have to have a rationalization that justifies their behavior, for without it, their conscience would eat at them. When someone knows they are doing something wrong (and that is everyone who can think rationally), they have to have some kind of justification for what they are about to do.
So, what happens to the people who cannot think rationally in your new society? Those people who do not have the mental capacity to follow cause and effect or whose mental illness distorts their rational thinking?
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This is not the case. Sociopaths know exactly what the rest of the world feels are right or wrong, they just see no reason to adhere to those standards.
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Because they can justify it.
No, because they want to. Sociopaths in particular feel no need justify anything they do. They do what they want to do when they want to do it because they do not care.
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My point is that we don't know that. Nor do we know it is the current atmosphere of blame that makes people pedophiles. Really, we don't know what it is that makes some people crave sex with children, and we have not reason to believe they will disappear in your new environment.
It's not just the current atmosphere of blame that makes people pedophiles; it is the atmosphere of blame that allows pedophiles to rationalize their behavior. What will stop anyone from gaining at someone else's expense is that they will get less satisfaction, not more, under the changed conditions. Right now they get more satisfaction having their desires met in spite of threats from the law.

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So where does it come from? All evil is A) rationalized or B) a retaliation in your philosophy. But a pedophile, while he may well rationalize after the fact that his act was not so bad, does not do so when giving in to the urge to have sex with very young children, and thus causing harm. The majority know very well that it is harm they are causing - the problem us that they are overcome by a desire to do so.

Do they not invalidate your theory?
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You are taking a very small segment of society that will not have this issue in the next generation. Those who have these urges and cannot help themselves (because the desire is too strong) will need to be supervised at all times, just as they are today. Rationalizations offer people what they need to satisfy their desires, but when they can no longer rationalize their behavior, even in this generation, you will see a great change. This in no way discredits the knowledge in this book.
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But it does - in that we have no reason to assume that whatever it is that makes people do these things today will go away in the new environment. It is to be taken as an article of faith.
Once again, you are talking about a small segment of society that has become deviant. If during the transition these people are not controlled by this higher law --- which supercedes all manmade laws --- then he will be confined to a place where he can't hurt others, just as they do today. But these behaviors will die out in a very short time and then we won't have to confine anyone again.
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Here's a discussion from JREF referencing some of the more ... unorthodox ... features of this system. My favorite description thus far is The Plan 9 from Outer Space of Books. There are examples of how discussions such as this one begin and end here and here.
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This is not the case. Sociopaths know exactly what the rest of the world feels are right or wrong, they just see no reason to adhere to those standards.
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Because they can justify it.
No, because they want to. Sociopaths in particular feel no need justify anything they do. They do what they want to do when they want to do it because they do not care.
That is true LadyShea, and that is because conscience is not at the temperature necessary to change behavior. In the new world, conscience will reach such a high temperature that they could never do what they were capable of doing in a free will environment. In other words, in the world of free will man was able to absolve his conscience in a world of right and wrong and get away with murder the very things our new knowledge that man's will is not free positively prevents.
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reveals a fantastic mankind system, was hidden so successfully
behind a camouflage of ostensible truths that no wonder it wasn’t
found until now.
Just like ShamWow!

Here's a discussion from JREF referencing some of the more ... unorthodox ... features of this system. My favorite description thus far is The Plan 9 from Outer Space of Books. There are examples of how discussions such as this one begin and end here and here.
That guy went behind my back and secretly wrote this off the wall review that was totally inaccurate. Believe me, there will be other reviews that will much more flattering. :yup: As far as graveyardofthegods, this website was one of my first. I was so taken aback by people's rude behavior, that it was either going to stop me in my tracks, or make me stronger. It made me stronger. NoDeity, the administrator, invited me to have my very own sub-forum but due to their anything goes policy, I had to decline.

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