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Originally Posted by LarsMac
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Originally Posted by davidm
Yes, peacegirl, we get it.
Everyone is compelled to move in the direction of greater satisfaction; hence, they have no free will.
The flip side of this is that no one can make you do, what you don’t want to do, because doing what you don’t want to do provides less satisfaction.
Hence it is pointless to blame anyone for dong something bad, because although it was bad, they thought it would provide them with greater satisfaction when they did it, hence they had to do it.
Once it is UNIVERSALLY UNDERSTOOD (after a great transition period or whatever) that no one can be blamed for what they do because they are compelled, so to say, of their own free will to do it, everyone will stop blaming everyone else for what they do.
But once that happens, no one will strike a first blow against anyone else, because their conscience will not permit it, because striking a first blow for which they know in advance they will not be blamed or punished will provide less satisfaction than not striking the first blow.
If no one strikes a first blow, no one will retaliate, since they will have no reason to retaliate, since no first blow has been struck.
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And that would, indeed, be a wonderful world.
Trouble is, that there are going to be plenty of people out there who will strike the first blow just for the pure unadulterated fuck of it, without giving a shit whether it makes sense or not.
your dad had far too much faith in the common sense of the Human Animal, Peacegirl. |
That's not true. We are all part of the laws that created us, including conscience. We cannot escape our nature, just like any species can't escape the laws that created them. When there is no justification to hurt others, the choice to do so would be out of one's reach. I know it's hard to believe because we see people hurting each other left and right. It seems like a fairy tale to believe that anything can be different. But there is a solution to the misery that humankind is experiencing and it's within reach.