an ominous comment
Juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 19:58:58 PDT 2015
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:40:51 -0400
Nick Econopouly <nickeconopouly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interestingly enough, a lot of anarchist theory agrees with what I
> said- The idea that people are like blank slates and not good or
> evil.
No, that's not what the 'blank slate' metaphor is
about.
'blank slate' is a name for the view or doctrine that the 'mind'
doesn't have any kind of innate knowledge and that everything
comes from experience.
In the moral realm it would mean that people don't have INBORN
ideas of good and evil BUT that doesn't mean that the concepts
are meaningless. Only that they are acquired later in life as
the mind develops.
On the other hand, the people who don't regard actions as good
or evil are amoralist psychos. Nothing to do with anarchism.
> It says that people are influenced by the world around them and
> that is what determines their morality, etc.
Sure. 'anarchism' is amoralism. Slavery? Just a historical
custom. War? An innocent mistake. Well not a mistake
since truth and error are also 'social constructs' - or
something like that.
>
> I was hardly praising anything. What I said about people thinking they
> are doing good still stands. Ask any police officer, they will think
> that they are protecting and serving the public.
1) that is false. While a 'majority' of your beloved psychos
may say that, not necessarily all do. Actually I wouldn't be
surprised if the majority admitted **off the record** that they
are scumbags who love to boss people around and even get
paid for it.
2) even if the majority of cops *said* that they regard
themselves as the good guys, so fucking what.
Hey. Now I'm a pink elephant. Because I say I'm a pink
elephant.
J.
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