RE: Why be good?
June 2, 2015 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 11:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that the "pollyanna-ish bit" (lol, slap hands baby..that was pretty good) is that you're trying to describe some binary human being, that "being good" as a human being means that the person isn't a dick.....or that whatever standards you have for what makes a person a dick are binding. Guess what, rich people who trample on others? -you're one of em. You're still a good guy..I'm certain, and they probably are'nt cartoon villains themselves........I used to shoot people a living, I'm a good guy too.
Lets not set some impossible and ridiculous standard and then bitch about the failures of the human race to meet said impossible and ridiculous standard..eh?
(I won't eat people because they aren't worth as much as food as they are as co-foragers. It's added survival risk...to kill the guy standing next to you when you both clearly need help. I wouldn't hit you over the head with a brick in the lifeboat scenario..I;d just make you swim..and I'd be swimming too, if there were other kids to put aboard. This shit doesn't take a hero..it takes the acknowledgment of the shame you would feel if you took another course. That's why we manage to save the kids so often...because it isn't actually that hard for us to do so- despite our mythologizing. I'm not trying to sell you a line about people being pure beings of light or some-such. You underestimate yourself, thinking that some higher bar is required when it isn't...you and I would get out of the woods - together. No one is going to be eating anyone, you and I both are eaters...not the eaten, roger, lol?)
Lets not set some impossible and ridiculous standard and then bitch about the failures of the human race to meet said impossible and ridiculous standard..eh?
(I won't eat people because they aren't worth as much as food as they are as co-foragers. It's added survival risk...to kill the guy standing next to you when you both clearly need help. I wouldn't hit you over the head with a brick in the lifeboat scenario..I;d just make you swim..and I'd be swimming too, if there were other kids to put aboard. This shit doesn't take a hero..it takes the acknowledgment of the shame you would feel if you took another course. That's why we manage to save the kids so often...because it isn't actually that hard for us to do so- despite our mythologizing. I'm not trying to sell you a line about people being pure beings of light or some-such. You underestimate yourself, thinking that some higher bar is required when it isn't...you and I would get out of the woods - together. No one is going to be eating anyone, you and I both are eaters...not the eaten, roger, lol?)
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