henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:45 am
VA,
What is 'freedom' and 'autonomy' is also conditioned upon the point that every individual must align with the same the universal moral law of absolute good. There can be no 'respect' if the other[s] are not in alignment with it.
As I say (to veg, upthread):
A person belongs to himself. You belong to you. To enslave you, to view you as, treat you as, property, is to ignore your self-possession. No one -- not you, me, not anyone -- believes it's their lot to be property. It's the single universal feature of all people. Even the slaver won't willingly accept enslavement.
Every person, I think, is aware of natural law/rights: it's a universal feature or intuition. But man is also a free will, not a robot: he can choose, as the slaver does, to ignore the other guy's self-possession. Ain't nuthin' to be done about it except defend against it (and him).
- That supports the obvious fact that people everywhere have an inherent resistance against being a cog in a machine.
- However, many folks are cogs, and gratefully so. After all, the alternative existence appears to be that of a diseased moose standing alone on the frozen tundra, just waiting to die. (just kidding)
- Evidence suggests that many people in many nations prefer to be a cog. Prefer to be a part of something bigger than a personal self, and thus be bigger
than a personal self.
Be all you can be, join the army. It rhymes.
- What is the evidence for this discrepancy between human nature and the comfort of cogdom?
Mental discrepancy causes mental conflict.
Mental conflict is a form of mental violence.
Mental violence turned outward is voice violence and physical violence.
Sounds about right. Plenty of people are mean and nasty and many cities burn in the summertime.
Conclusion: Civilization is a thin veil.