padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
as blank slates - i.e. at birth - yesdo you think that all ppl are equally deserving of life?
but I don't think there's any universal answer to what form that life should take
as blank slates - i.e. at birth - yesdo you think that all ppl are equally deserving of life?
to deny univeralism isn't to say everything is equally meaninglessembrace relativism in which case there is no argument against slavery, FGM, etc
Maybe I'm needlessly hung up on this, but I think the primary way to prevent those things is to redirect the energies that would otherwise express themselves as such phenomena.you can either embrace relativism in which case there is no argument against slavery, FGM, etc or you find a valid basis for universalism. its that simple.
Maybe I'm needlessly hung up on this, but I think the primary way to prevent those things is to redirect the energies that would otherwise express themselves as such phenomena.
And ultimately if we can't sate the paedos and mutilators, at least we will have sated everyone else. So its largely in the interest of unification despite ideological difference, save for some intense few. Aim for 100% to achieve maximum potential, no?
it's a very depressing thought to realize that civilized human history is an endless succession of conquerors imposing their valueswe can't find any valid reason to impose our will and our values on the world at large
Yeah I think some of these problems can only be solved from higher realms, and so it would be a matter of cognizing some sufficient analog/model of a higher order, and then learning from it, I suppose.it's a very depressing thought to realize that civilized human history is an endless succession of conquerors imposing their values
obv it's not hard to argue that the failure - rather than one of will - has been trying too hard to "impose our values on the world at large"
that's essentially been the metadebate in U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam
I would say that the will is usually if not always insufficient, but also that imposing your values will only roundaboutly sow the seeds for the opposite. So perhaps the approach taken is one that cannot be opposed, one that subsumes all possible positions. What that'll look like, I don't know - but I'm not convinced its impossible.obv it's not hard to argue that the failure - rather than one of will - has been trying too hard to "impose our values on the world at large"
that's essentially been the metadebate in U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam
I admire your doggedness in returning everything to some kind of God of emergent propertiessome of these problems can only be solved from higher realms
That is the central knot, as far as I can tell. I think the only way to solidify certain values, namely egalitarian ones, is a sort of faith that the final product will involve their reconciliation with opposing energies, rather than their destruction by opposing energies.but we do very much want to abolish slavery, for instance, we do not want to give up these universals. so we are in a very real quandry we need to think our way out of
it's very toughinterventionism
Yeah I think this hits at the same point about the new being cognizable only through some lense of old, and to assume that it is finally figured out is to secure the same mistake, again and again.where for me history demonstrates that there are always unknown unknowns