RE: The Oppression Olympics
February 16, 2017 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 9:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2017 at 3:39 am)InquiringMind Wrote:Nah. "Natural evil" doesn't oppress, it's non thinking and indiscriminate.(February 16, 2017 at 2:34 am)Khemikal Wrote: Maybe it's not okay to oppress....at all?
Perhaps we can frame this as the Problem of Evil, which we can divide into natural evil and moral evil. Eveyone is oppressed by natural evil - by an oppressive snowstorm or an oppressive disease.
Quote: As for moral evil, people naturally organize themselves into social hierarchies, with the people on the bottom being oppressed by the people on the top, and the people on the top being oppressed by the people on the bottom.-and? Just because some folks do it, doesn't mean we -should-.
Quote:Maybe life is just oppressive by nature.Or maybe you have low expectations and standards? "It's just natural" and "everyone does it"...really? No and no, in any case.
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