First off, you take great pains to establish and reinforce the assertion that evil doesn’t exist, but is rather a construct created from ignorance. But then at the end you assert that ignorance is being spread by the bourgeois in an evil plot. You’re just following circular logic by this point.
Second, the assertion that all evil stems from ignorance of the harm of others is concerningly naïve. Many rapists don’t have trouble understanding what their victims experience. Quite the opposite - rape and abuse is often about taking power over others, and the knowledge of marking their victims so throroughly that they’re traumatized drives that.
Third, sociopaths exist. Sociopathy is a recognized mental condition with one of the defining characteristics being the inability to experience empathy. It doesn’t matter how long you spend teaching a sociopath about how much harm they might do, because they can’t care.
You were going in a good direction in the first half of the blog post, and I don’t necessarily disagree with your point that the ruling class wants to keep everyone else pacified. But the route you take to try to connect those two points just simply doesn’t work. The unfortunate truth of the world is that some people are just evil. I recommend you take some time to think on your philosophy more, because trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.
trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.
No, it doesn’t. I have battled with some vile abusers who did horrible things. I deplatformed a pedophile by releasing leaked screenshots that showed the individual online dating children. Azsula believed that Azsula’s actions were ethically okay because consent doesn’t exist. I organised a campaign to contact everyone on Azsula’s discord server and send them the article with the screenshots. I told people to leave, and not give their time or presence to abusers, and over 1/3 of them did, leading Azsula to shut down the discord server and retreat from public life. I did so in the full knowledge that Azsula’s intentions were not malicious, that Azsula didn’t mean any harm. The reason why I was able to do so is that I think ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is itself a form of violence which must be dealt with.
And I don’t agree that sociopathy is a recognised mental condition. It doesn’t have a DSM entry. What it does have is a note in the ASPD section saying that sociopathy is sometimes used as a slang term for ASPD. ASPD is a recognised mental condition, sociopathy is not. And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
So you deplatformed a single pedo who claimed it was from ignorance, after you destroyed their audience? I don’t buy their story.
And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
They can understand it intellectually, but they don’t feel the same feelings. There’s a trait in autism called “masking” where you just learn to emulate what non-neurodivergent people do.
Also note that I never claimed that sociopaths are guaranteed to be terrible people or even vice versa. Just that they are an example of people that are unable to feel empathy. A couple of people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder learning to mask doesn’t change tgeir condition.
No, the pedo claimed that consent doesn’t exist before I destroyed the pedo’s audience. I got My hands on a year’s worth of private chatlogs and searched them extensively to find the most incriminating screenshots to prove beyond any doubt that Azsula was dating those kids. So I got a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the relationship and how they justified it to themselves. They were anti-ageist political radicals, who considered age of consent laws to be ageist. The pedo has an adult body but identifies as a child internally. So that’s why it feels justified to Azsula internally. Doesn’t feel justified to Me, though.
There’s a lot wrong about this post.
First off, you take great pains to establish and reinforce the assertion that evil doesn’t exist, but is rather a construct created from ignorance. But then at the end you assert that ignorance is being spread by the bourgeois in an evil plot. You’re just following circular logic by this point.
Second, the assertion that all evil stems from ignorance of the harm of others is concerningly naïve. Many rapists don’t have trouble understanding what their victims experience. Quite the opposite - rape and abuse is often about taking power over others, and the knowledge of marking their victims so throroughly that they’re traumatized drives that.
Third, sociopaths exist. Sociopathy is a recognized mental condition with one of the defining characteristics being the inability to experience empathy. It doesn’t matter how long you spend teaching a sociopath about how much harm they might do, because they can’t care.
You were going in a good direction in the first half of the blog post, and I don’t necessarily disagree with your point that the ruling class wants to keep everyone else pacified. But the route you take to try to connect those two points just simply doesn’t work. The unfortunate truth of the world is that some people are just evil. I recommend you take some time to think on your philosophy more, because trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.
No, it doesn’t. I have battled with some vile abusers who did horrible things. I deplatformed a pedophile by releasing leaked screenshots that showed the individual online dating children. Azsula believed that Azsula’s actions were ethically okay because consent doesn’t exist. I organised a campaign to contact everyone on Azsula’s discord server and send them the article with the screenshots. I told people to leave, and not give their time or presence to abusers, and over 1/3 of them did, leading Azsula to shut down the discord server and retreat from public life. I did so in the full knowledge that Azsula’s intentions were not malicious, that Azsula didn’t mean any harm. The reason why I was able to do so is that I think ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is itself a form of violence which must be dealt with.
And I don’t agree that sociopathy is a recognised mental condition. It doesn’t have a DSM entry. What it does have is a note in the ASPD section saying that sociopathy is sometimes used as a slang term for ASPD. ASPD is a recognised mental condition, sociopathy is not. And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
So you deplatformed a single pedo who claimed it was from ignorance, after you destroyed their audience? I don’t buy their story.
They can understand it intellectually, but they don’t feel the same feelings. There’s a trait in autism called “masking” where you just learn to emulate what non-neurodivergent people do.
Also note that I never claimed that sociopaths are guaranteed to be terrible people or even vice versa. Just that they are an example of people that are unable to feel empathy. A couple of people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder learning to mask doesn’t change tgeir condition.
No, the pedo claimed that consent doesn’t exist before I destroyed the pedo’s audience. I got My hands on a year’s worth of private chatlogs and searched them extensively to find the most incriminating screenshots to prove beyond any doubt that Azsula was dating those kids. So I got a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the relationship and how they justified it to themselves. They were anti-ageist political radicals, who considered age of consent laws to be ageist. The pedo has an adult body but identifies as a child internally. So that’s why it feels justified to Azsula internally. Doesn’t feel justified to Me, though.