You’ve just kicked the can down the line and created a loop. “The empire’s economy and narratives”. Who exactly do you think runs these empires? Hint. It’s people.
Tyrannical governments have existed since the earliest of recorded history. It’s not something exclusive to any one country. People are bastards no matter their color, race, creed or tribe. People suck.
“People are shitty because other people are shitty.” I understand the logic to it but when exactly did this cycle start? What is the initial source of evil that pushed the world into chaos if not us?
The only way we move forward is to accept responsibility and be held accountable, which is seemingly incompatible with human life. People gladly deny genocides on this very site daily.
I don’t think I can come to any other conclusions than people are just inherently evil. Maybe good doesn’t even exist? Just a planet full of pricks fucking everybody else over for their own personal gain and “good” is a fairy tale we tell ourselves to make us feel better and wash away our sins.
People are not inherently evil, I’d even say we’re predisposed to prosociality, but intelligence plus free will mixed with selfishness and fear make us more than capable of being/doing “evil”, certainly. We’re imperfect, we’ll never not be, but I do believe we can be better towards each other with a minimal amount of great excesses. The only way to combat it is to truly believe collectively it’s our duty to be righteous, and here’s where believing in God, and that will judge us all fairly for our deeds, comes in handy. Idk any other more foolproof way, as in one empathetic philosopher might bring himself to do this without belief somewhat successfully but the other 99 will require some sort of handrails to walk through life ethically more successfully than not.
I think we would be alright if we simply defaulted to caring about all human life on this planet. We can’t continue picking groups of people to place above others.
You’ve just kicked the can down the line and created a loop. “The empire’s economy and narratives”. Who exactly do you think runs these empires? Hint. It’s people.
Tyrannical governments have existed since the earliest of recorded history. It’s not something exclusive to any one country. People are bastards no matter their color, race, creed or tribe. People suck.
“People are shitty because other people are shitty.” I understand the logic to it but when exactly did this cycle start? What is the initial source of evil that pushed the world into chaos if not us?
The only way we move forward is to accept responsibility and be held accountable, which is seemingly incompatible with human life. People gladly deny genocides on this very site daily.
I don’t think I can come to any other conclusions than people are just inherently evil. Maybe good doesn’t even exist? Just a planet full of pricks fucking everybody else over for their own personal gain and “good” is a fairy tale we tell ourselves to make us feel better and wash away our sins.
People are not inherently evil, I’d even say we’re predisposed to prosociality, but intelligence plus free will mixed with selfishness and fear make us more than capable of being/doing “evil”, certainly. We’re imperfect, we’ll never not be, but I do believe we can be better towards each other with a minimal amount of great excesses. The only way to combat it is to truly believe collectively it’s our duty to be righteous, and here’s where believing in God, and that will judge us all fairly for our deeds, comes in handy. Idk any other more foolproof way, as in one empathetic philosopher might bring himself to do this without belief somewhat successfully but the other 99 will require some sort of handrails to walk through life ethically more successfully than not.
I think we would be alright if we simply defaulted to caring about all human life on this planet. We can’t continue picking groups of people to place above others.