Nick_A wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 1:45 am
Dubious wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 1:32 am
Nick_A wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:57 am
You still haven't explained what is wrong with infanticide if there are no eternal values.
Infanticide should be one of
your eternal values being fully accepted, found perfectly reasonable and completely justified by Plato himself, one of your chief enlightenment gurus and expounder of Eternal Values. Explain that!
To quote Will Durant:
Plato will call for the exposure of all feeble children and of those born of base or elderly parents.
Why is it EVERYONE thinks you're a complete mental screw-up...except one who has the same "cultist" mentality as you.
If you would think as good as you emote you may discover an important question. How does respecting survival of the fittest as a natural value relate to respect for life as an eternal value? Let's see how you can complain that away for the safety of avoiding contemplation.
Nick, today, if suddenly the world was a total anarchy, you'd probably be the first idiot to become MEAT! There are those out there that would rip you to shreds! Afterwords picking their teeth with one of your bloody phalanges. You see, that world is illusory to people like you that's fat dumb and happy sitting in your relative easy chair. I tell you what me buck-o, join your local military of armed fighting men and ask to be placed on the front of the worst current war, so you can experience a true world of anarchy, so as to come to grips with your fantasy world of wolves. I'm sure it'll wipe that demented smirk right off your face. With any luck you'll only come back with half a face, that'll surely teach you a lesson, you'll never forget. You'll wish you had shut your mouth here, and enjoyed your stratolounger instead. You know what they say fool(?), "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." But then in truth, that's merely a fools game, because one can never truly be on the other side, they're always on their side. No matter where one goes, there they are. Your idea of not being a sheep, rather your illusory big bad wolf, simply places you on the menu, of the bigger badder wolves. Live by the sword, die by the sword! Or maybe much worse!
What ever has got you panties in a bunch, should itself be addressed instead of imagining a world of wolves and sheep, as it's all just a state of mind. I've been very successful in ripping mankind's conceptions/illusions to shreds, thanks to philosophy. It would seem that there are plethora perspectives that show a much more realistic picture, rather than mankind's generally accepted dogma, his current program. In fact, the so called wolves, are just scared shit-less, which is why they're so frantic about not being one of the equal people of the masses.
The Body Electric
One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath the lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode, crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
One zero zero one zero zero one
SOS
One zero zero one zero zero one
In distress
One zero zero one zero zero
Memory banks unloading
Bytes break into bits
Unit One's in trouble and it's scared out of its wits
Guidance systems break down
A struggle to exist
To resist
A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist
One zero zero one zero zero one
SOS
One zero zero one zero zero one
In distress
One zero zero one zero zero
It replays each of the days
A hundred years of routines
Bows its head and prays
To the mother of all machines
--Rush-- (2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees)
I very simple metaphor that you should be able to understand, as it pertains to your situation. But then it applies to a lot of us. The only problem lies in the program one chooses.
Just in case you're not familiar with binary to ASCII conversion.
1001001 = "I" in ASCII text
SOS
1001001 = "I" in ASCII text
In distress
100100 = "$" in ASCII text