RE: When you left theism, did you go Left?
April 17, 2021 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2021 at 5:24 pm by FlatAssembler.
Edit Reason: Explained why I think police does not help.
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When I became an atheist, I soon became an anarchist as well. I found believing that prisons were a good thing to be about as ridiculous as believing hell is a good thing. And, by extension, that the belief that police protects us is ridiculous as well. The police almost always comes after an insane person has already murdered someone, and then they put that insane person in prison. And prison is a place from which that insane person will return with even more psychological problems.
Now, whether anarchism is left-wing, well, I think it depends on whether the anarchist believes a violent revolution to overthrow the current government would do more good than harm. Because that is what left-wing and right-wing originally meant, left-wing meant one who supports the Frech Revolution. I do not think that a revolution would do more good than harm, as revolutions do not have a stellar track record of achieving what they promise. Maybe it would work in North Korea, but it is very unlikely to work here. So, no, I did not become more left-wing.
Now, whether anarchism is left-wing, well, I think it depends on whether the anarchist believes a violent revolution to overthrow the current government would do more good than harm. Because that is what left-wing and right-wing originally meant, left-wing meant one who supports the Frech Revolution. I do not think that a revolution would do more good than harm, as revolutions do not have a stellar track record of achieving what they promise. Maybe it would work in North Korea, but it is very unlikely to work here. So, no, I did not become more left-wing.
