I didn't use the term "greater good" - which I point out only because you took the time to quote me. I said "good of the greater world" as in the mass of people much larger than my one life benefitting from the act (their good).ZephyrFireStrom said:For the greater good of what? These humans are worth jack. The majority of them are unoriginal clones that flock to the next best thing, that best thing being something entirely irrelevent. What good there is left in the world is dwindling, hanging by a thread, vastly out numbered by the corrupted. There isn't enough good on the planet to stop the spread of corruption. To prolong the human race is to doom the universe.Mylinkay Asdara said:Without picking your example apart for all the bits that don't make sense, and sticking to the spirit of what you're asking: yes. I'm not so into myself that I would prefer my own pleasures of life to the good of the greater world.
And you've got to remember that there is no way to stop it. You could hypothetically say that all the worlds problems are gone, but really, how is that possible? War, famine, and all that shit is caused by people screwing other people over. So even if you do make this ultimate sacrifice, at some point people will start to screw other people over again. Unless you're taking away their free will. Which is fucked.AccursedTheory said:Would I erase myself from history to rob every single person on the planet of their free will?
That's not an ultimate sacrifice, thats the biggest dick move ever conceived. Made even worse since you wouldn't exist anymore, and no one would have anyone to blame for the lose of free will (And they couldn't play the blame game anyway, since that requires a little bit of self interest).
Not what I meant. Clearly. OP said erased. As in, never existed. As in, no recognition. Nevertheless, I'd probably not sacrifice myself simply for recognition, as I gain nothing from it, as I also said. Oblivion, nothingness, not even the conscious appreciation of nothingness, is one thing which I think of as completely undesirable, though I expect it as a part and parcel of life. What I'm saying is, you make the world a better place, but at the same time, you remove it completely from your enjoyment, which is about a textbook case of a phyrric victory as could exist.krazykidd said:Then sacrificing yourself for recongnition from others is ideal. Hate to break it to you but, once you die you will eventually be forgotten , unless you do something incredibly bad ( hitler ) or incredibly good ( mother theresa ) . Either way once your dead you won't know because , well , your dead .
Something like this and what the other guy said....but that's a really crass way to put it.ZephyrFireStrom said:For the greater good of what? These humans are worth jack. The majority of them are unoriginal clones that flock to the next best thing, that best thing being something entirely irrelevent. What good there is left in the world is dwindling, hanging by a thread, vastly out numbered by the corrupted. There isn't enough good on the planet to stop the spread of corruption. To prolong the human race is to doom the universe.
I wish I saw this before making my prior post BUT..yea this...and MasterOfHisOwnDomain, that's pretty much it. If you stop trying to fix things, bad stuff wins. If you keep trying, you'll keep the cycle rolling. Bad stuff, good stuff, bad stuff, good stuff....and try not to tell the starving children and widows....They don't take the news too well.MasterOfHisOwnDomain said:As eloquent as that sounds, try telling that to children suffering from malnutrition, widows and mothers who have to grieve over husbands and sons lost in pointless wars, people who lose relatives to diseases and incurable illnesses. There's so much shit in this world, and if we don't work towards ending it then what exactly is our purpose?ThreeWords said:No, I would not. Suffering makes people strong, and not just in terms of physical power.
Without evil there is no such thing as a good man.