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The book hit the wall. A philosopher who lived with a wolf. Ok, rescue a wolf raised in captivity, give it a decent life, train it as well as possible, fine. But justify BUYIING it as a puppy, without acknowledging that one is supporting illegal breeders who sell these wild animals to whatever fucktard with $500 will buy them, then leave them chained in a yard the rest of their pitiful lives, is willful stupidity. I can forgive ignorance, I have no patience for willful idiots with education. Just because he did better with the wolf he cared for, he still gave his money to someone who won't ensure that others WON'T, so he IS part of the problem, no matter how he justifies it.
Right up there with justifiers of abortion doctor murderers. Now, if one works all their lives to make sure every child has a home, a decent upbringing, free from hunger and abuse at very least, And Succeeds - then, and ONLY then, when they can rightfully argue that there is no reason for abortion, because every child is wanted, can one make a moral argument against abortion. Anything else is self indulgent wankery. Especially for men who will never have to make this agonizing decision.
If I contribute to a problem, I have no right justifying those who fail to solve it at the end stage. I have to work toward solving the root of it, or shut the fuck up about band-aid, easy solutions that satisfy the urge to enact revenge. Put money in the hands of the users, and justify it by your own lack of malice, and the evil is still being funded. Violence is easy, dealing with the side effects of violence is not. I don't want to live with myself as a violent person, I want to be compassionate. I want peace and gentleness. So I have to make peaceful, gentle choices. Every moment. So I cannot support the death penalty, because although it certainly stops that individual murderer or killing again, what does it do to us? We become killers, and the blood is on our hands.
So I look at the death penalty not as a solution to murderers, but as a stain on the soul of my own culture. Offering them assisted suicide I am good with. But only inasmuch as it is equally accessable to the terminally ill and those in intractable pain. I want this available for me, I want the humane euthanasia option, without the interference of the godbotherers.
But then, I have nothing but ridiculing contempt for organized religion and irrational faith, especially those that want to impose their dogma on me, without a rational moral compass and consistent ethics.
Get the damn plank out of your own eye, just as I prefer to get that wood out of my own, first. Only then do we have any right to condemn each other. And by then, we should not want to.
No one can make anyone do anything. We can only control ourselves, and we'd best be on about it. Do or do not, but don't justify evil.
Can you tell I got stuck in the staff room during a particularly ignorant discussion this week? And kept my thoughts to myself, as per.
Right up there with justifiers of abortion doctor murderers. Now, if one works all their lives to make sure every child has a home, a decent upbringing, free from hunger and abuse at very least, And Succeeds - then, and ONLY then, when they can rightfully argue that there is no reason for abortion, because every child is wanted, can one make a moral argument against abortion. Anything else is self indulgent wankery. Especially for men who will never have to make this agonizing decision.
If I contribute to a problem, I have no right justifying those who fail to solve it at the end stage. I have to work toward solving the root of it, or shut the fuck up about band-aid, easy solutions that satisfy the urge to enact revenge. Put money in the hands of the users, and justify it by your own lack of malice, and the evil is still being funded. Violence is easy, dealing with the side effects of violence is not. I don't want to live with myself as a violent person, I want to be compassionate. I want peace and gentleness. So I have to make peaceful, gentle choices. Every moment. So I cannot support the death penalty, because although it certainly stops that individual murderer or killing again, what does it do to us? We become killers, and the blood is on our hands.
So I look at the death penalty not as a solution to murderers, but as a stain on the soul of my own culture. Offering them assisted suicide I am good with. But only inasmuch as it is equally accessable to the terminally ill and those in intractable pain. I want this available for me, I want the humane euthanasia option, without the interference of the godbotherers.
But then, I have nothing but ridiculing contempt for organized religion and irrational faith, especially those that want to impose their dogma on me, without a rational moral compass and consistent ethics.
Get the damn plank out of your own eye, just as I prefer to get that wood out of my own, first. Only then do we have any right to condemn each other. And by then, we should not want to.
No one can make anyone do anything. We can only control ourselves, and we'd best be on about it. Do or do not, but don't justify evil.
Can you tell I got stuck in the staff room during a particularly ignorant discussion this week? And kept my thoughts to myself, as per.
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Posted by Zhoen on Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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