Okay, so I recently stumbled upon a big amount of threads including such... silly, little questions, of the sort "is it okay to lie?", "are you a hypocrite", "is it okay to watch car crashes" and so on. Now, I find it amusing how most people, not only here in the EC(That's short for Escapist Comunity *coughNERDcough*) are completely unfamiliar with the concepts and bounderies of human nature. I mean, have we gotten, oh, so brainwashed by all sorts of moralities and moral codes that we've completely forgotten that most of the "bad" things in life are actually NORMAL?! It puzzles me to no extent... Our society has become so entranced with being ethical and morally-"good" and just outright crazy! So that's why I've conducted a small list of "things", or more likely charecteristics of the human nature, as we've known it for quite a while. To re-cap, these are the things that are normal for us to do/like, find interesting/intrigueing and so on:
Murder, comes first to my mind. It's one of the basic survival skills that ALL creatures on this planet(and some other planet too, I suppose) have picked-up during our long evolutionary process. Also, this one includes violence in every possible form, because I don't wish to discuss every one of these forms.
Sexual Intercorse, or recreation - Yes! Sex! It's actually GOOD for you, wheather you're a man or a woman, it doesn't really matter. It's healthy and most importantly - free!
Henceforth - Deceit, or cheating, or basially - wanting to recreate with another of your kind(or not of your kind, whatever you're in to). This is something completely normal and EVEN observed in most animals. I know giving examples with animals is a stupid, pathetic argument, but in this case it's viable.
Theft - Possession is something that we, ourselves have thUnked-up. Such a thing as "hey! that's mine!" doesn't exist. It's only a formality, an unwritten law, a silent agreement that "this" is yours and therefore nobody else can touch it. Without these things, "this" is as much yours as it is mine.
Envy - A branch deriving from the same silent agreement that we just discussed. If we're in need of something, for no matter what reason, it's normal that we actually WANT it. And because of that same moral "law" that states that taking something that doesn't "belong" to you is "wrong", we've given birth to a new sensation in our own little minds - envy. So being envious of someone is nothing to be ashamed of.
Deceit in a form of a Lie - Also a tool for survival, I believe. We humans are intelligent creatures, so when it comes to saving our own a@#es we tend to do whatever's possible to accomplish the task. So, basically we use this one to get out of sticky situations that our brains percieve to be harmful to our well being. But there's another, more complicated reason for it. Now, throught the process of evolution our place on the top of the food chain has made us very proud of ourselves. This pride on it's own developes other branches, such as - dignity. Now, because of that, it's quite easy to get offended, because of something said, or not said. In other words Lying is actually a formality we use in order to sustain our strong social connections with other people. On this topic, I recommend a movie called The Invention of Lying it portraits our own society and how it would look like without the element of the lie. It's a great movie.
Hypocracy - Deriving from lying and basically the same, only in a needlessly more complicated way. As the element of pride grows in our minds every day, it becoems harder for us to express our true thoughts and feeling about something concerning someone else. So we decide to share it with the others and not the person it's actually directed towards. There are several reasons for that strange "phenomenon" to occur, fear is the most common one, though most people wouldn't admit that, so they made-up the term "gossip", so that they could have an excuse for being vaginas. We ALL do it, even subconciously and unbeknownst to us. Remember - even just sharing something with your friends and familly, regarding someone else, even if they aren't familiar with the person, it also counts as hypocritical. Nice, eh? Moving along...
Well, actually that's all I can think of right now. If you have anything to add to the list, please do. Also, if you find my understandings of the listed above wrong in anyway, feel free to discuss it in the comments section, although I doubt this thread will have a lot of views and answers and sCHtuff, because basically it's not a discussion, it's more of a... lesson, I dunno, you decide for yourself. That's all from me, for now, see you suckers tomorrow when I have a look at what you've answered
P.S. Ah, there's one thing I forgot to add - Morality is something human and should not be looked upon as some "devine" rule or whatever, because the existance of such a force is still arguable! So! If you plan on saying something along the lines of "Well god told us to blah blah blah", I suggest you just leave! This discussion is for intelligent people, who shall discuss human nature, not DEVINE nature. So forget the laws of your god, please, for a moment and just discuss! Thank you!
P.P.S. I am not trying to offend anybody, or anybody's religion, but please - no dimwitted posts! Thank you, again!
Murder, comes first to my mind. It's one of the basic survival skills that ALL creatures on this planet(and some other planet too, I suppose) have picked-up during our long evolutionary process. Also, this one includes violence in every possible form, because I don't wish to discuss every one of these forms.
Sexual Intercorse, or recreation - Yes! Sex! It's actually GOOD for you, wheather you're a man or a woman, it doesn't really matter. It's healthy and most importantly - free!
Henceforth - Deceit, or cheating, or basially - wanting to recreate with another of your kind(or not of your kind, whatever you're in to). This is something completely normal and EVEN observed in most animals. I know giving examples with animals is a stupid, pathetic argument, but in this case it's viable.
Theft - Possession is something that we, ourselves have thUnked-up. Such a thing as "hey! that's mine!" doesn't exist. It's only a formality, an unwritten law, a silent agreement that "this" is yours and therefore nobody else can touch it. Without these things, "this" is as much yours as it is mine.
Envy - A branch deriving from the same silent agreement that we just discussed. If we're in need of something, for no matter what reason, it's normal that we actually WANT it. And because of that same moral "law" that states that taking something that doesn't "belong" to you is "wrong", we've given birth to a new sensation in our own little minds - envy. So being envious of someone is nothing to be ashamed of.
Deceit in a form of a Lie - Also a tool for survival, I believe. We humans are intelligent creatures, so when it comes to saving our own a@#es we tend to do whatever's possible to accomplish the task. So, basically we use this one to get out of sticky situations that our brains percieve to be harmful to our well being. But there's another, more complicated reason for it. Now, throught the process of evolution our place on the top of the food chain has made us very proud of ourselves. This pride on it's own developes other branches, such as - dignity. Now, because of that, it's quite easy to get offended, because of something said, or not said. In other words Lying is actually a formality we use in order to sustain our strong social connections with other people. On this topic, I recommend a movie called The Invention of Lying it portraits our own society and how it would look like without the element of the lie. It's a great movie.
Hypocracy - Deriving from lying and basically the same, only in a needlessly more complicated way. As the element of pride grows in our minds every day, it becoems harder for us to express our true thoughts and feeling about something concerning someone else. So we decide to share it with the others and not the person it's actually directed towards. There are several reasons for that strange "phenomenon" to occur, fear is the most common one, though most people wouldn't admit that, so they made-up the term "gossip", so that they could have an excuse for being vaginas. We ALL do it, even subconciously and unbeknownst to us. Remember - even just sharing something with your friends and familly, regarding someone else, even if they aren't familiar with the person, it also counts as hypocritical. Nice, eh? Moving along...
Well, actually that's all I can think of right now. If you have anything to add to the list, please do. Also, if you find my understandings of the listed above wrong in anyway, feel free to discuss it in the comments section, although I doubt this thread will have a lot of views and answers and sCHtuff, because basically it's not a discussion, it's more of a... lesson, I dunno, you decide for yourself. That's all from me, for now, see you suckers tomorrow when I have a look at what you've answered
P.S. Ah, there's one thing I forgot to add - Morality is something human and should not be looked upon as some "devine" rule or whatever, because the existance of such a force is still arguable! So! If you plan on saying something along the lines of "Well god told us to blah blah blah", I suggest you just leave! This discussion is for intelligent people, who shall discuss human nature, not DEVINE nature. So forget the laws of your god, please, for a moment and just discuss! Thank you!
P.P.S. I am not trying to offend anybody, or anybody's religion, but please - no dimwitted posts! Thank you, again!
