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Well lets just say that's and excellent excuse for a sociopathic murder or rapist, i wonder why that doesn't hold up in court. maybe because its madness....
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I'm not sure there is a possible way to live any other way. I was thinking about "What if you live for someone else." (But that'd be what you wanted.) "What if you contradict every instinct you have" (It'd take some motivation, which would either be to do whats best/worst, or, in a severe situation, to continue living itself.)
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I'm not sure there is a possible way to live any other way. I was thinking about "What if you live for someone else." (But that'd be what you wanted.) "What if you contradict every instinct you have" (It'd take some motivation, which would either be to do whats best/worst, or, in a severe situation, to continue living itself.)
However I think the reason not to would be to not quite be considered mad, or to keep relationships for more than a second. Working up to things usually guarantees theyll last.
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The human brain is not thusly programmed. So regardless of the "point," it isn't possible, and unless you have acquired the might to defend your autonomy, you'll find a mob eager to demonstrate that you cannot, in fact, do anything you want to do.
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So if I want to have sex with a woman, I should simply grab her and go to town? Is that morality?
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That is too simplistic. Even the individual has conflict over priorities. An ethic is a 'complex of moral precepts.' Can anything be 'moral' if it does not involve consideration of others?
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There's as much of a point to living that way as there is to living with consideration of others and what they want.
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this is an ethic that can appear fine...
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this is an ethic that can appear fine...
... for a child in a safe environment living in the present moment... but when you are the parent of that child you would not accept this ethic - children can be sociopaths.
we are all aware of the future, of our genes being carried forward to the future by our children
we can also be aware that society depends upon our cooperative understanding to ensure that the world is not full of the dead bodies of sociopaths who just, "did what they wanted to do" - children need boundaries and parenting
we all need each other in some deeper way...
enlightened self interest means that when we do what we want to do - it involves making the world better for our species because that is the ultimate form of happiness and contentment when all other issues are considered...
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