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Capitalism is not human nature. It is a system of exploitation that has to go
Selfishness is not a historical necessity of human nature, but rather one component of human nature as it exists in the current historical moment, shaped by current sociological, religious, political, and economic structures.
Attributing selfishness as an inherent part of human nature and letting that underpin your misanthropy is wrong on two accounts:
I suggest you do some reading to better understand the idea of human nature.
A favorite of mine is Elementary Principles of Philosophy.
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You've suggested that selfishness is a universal aspect of human nature.
I suggested that selfishness is not a universal aspect of human nature, but instead a result of the intra-actions between human beings and political systems as they currently exist.
Explain how it is I, and not you, who is the ideologue in this situation.
Step 0: Choose to click on a thread in a .ml community when you clearly hate us. The socialism community no less when you clearly don't intend on learning about socialism.
Step 1: Make a claim with no justification because "obviously it should be obvious to anyone."
Step 2: Someone disagrees, provides a detailed justification complete with sources.
Step 3: Resort to ad hominem name calling. Complain about the instance that you chose to click and comment on.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Reassure yourself that your ideology is the correct one and everyone else is wrong.
And we're the dickhead ideologues, sure.
Capitalism is a mode of production, how on earth is capitalism "people?"
Murder is done by people too, but murder isn't people.
Violence is people in that people are what makes things violent around us
Sure, and our environment is what shapes us, and we shape our environment. Human nature is malleable.
This is just substituting actual analysis with misanthropy.
You've just demonstrated the biggest reason everyone hates people lol. We hate people because people act like you as soon as they disagree on something. Zero attempt to learn from others or even defend your own opinions that you feel so strongly about, just "fuck you and everyone who agrees with you if you don't tell me I'm absolutely right."
Also, just curious, do you also hate yourself when you say you hate "people?" Or is everyone else the problem and you're the only good person in your mind?
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