How many weeds did you inject?
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Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees? I have found you can find happiness in slavery
Yes these are Nine Inch Nails lyrics, they slap. Op needs to do a lot more drugs
if you don't find that kind of life worth living, stop supporting the system. if you support a system that enables you to use drugs and listen to really old music, then i guess you find it worth living for.
Maybe it's all the drugs (did more than enough, long ago) but I'm genuinely unsure what you're trying to say. It doesn't take a lot of institutional support to get high and listen to music, I get a vague sense you think I'm supporting something and find that hypocritical. Care to elaborate?
We had something like this in our philosophy class.
Think of a kind of life you think is worthwhile. If there's a system that you know, from experience, supports that kind of life, then it makes sense for you to support that system.
Ontological tautology, yes.
No, it’s not a tautology, it’s a pragmatic principle.
A tautology is a statement that’s true by definition and doesn’t add new meaning (e.g., "A circle is round").
An ontological tautology would be:
A system that supports the kind of life one thinks is worthwhile supports the kind of life one thinks is worthwhile.
That's how I read it, which is why I said that. Appreciate the explanation. ✌️
If you can only support one of two systems, for example: the first you know, from experience, supports a worthwhile life; and the second you expect to support it even more, though without empirical evidence; which should you support?
Which would you support?
Is worthwhile enough, for a life? If worthwhile isn't enough, then, by definition, is it not worthwhile? Is enough the level at which anything more is without merit?
I suppose it does "make sense" to support the first system, even if it also makes sense to support the second system. Yeah, it's tautological (it makes sense to do things that make sense to you), but I think it's still an interesting point to make for the questions it raises!
Which of the systems allows for you to pursue your ideal system - an activity which you would probably add to your definition of a worthwhile life?
Is familiar hell better than unknown heaven?
Fun fact: communism worked great for 65,000 years in Australia, so it's way more thoroughly tested than capitalism. Capitalism started a mass extinction event in only a couple hundred years!
Can you elaborate on the Australia communism thing
It makes sense to tolerate it. Not necessarily support it.
Then you're finding it worthwhile to support a system that allows for you to merely tolerate it
“Don’t be surprised that people still Stan for capitalism”
Aliens?
Nah...
I know a couple kids that were abandoned by their parents when their cult left the country, because the cult would have faced scrutiny taking all the kids.
Those kids grew up, and started a cult.
It's a "benevolent" cult, and from what I know pretty easy going and actually work thru things...
But all the guys who started it, grew up in a cult. It's what they know, it's normal to them.
They legitimately don't understand why some people freak out about it. And they call it some weird cult-speak term instead of "cult" like that King of the Hill joke. But it's 100% a cult.
Are they hurting anything?
No
But they'd have been a lot better off going to therapy and recommending it to people that need it than starting a cult.
The "system" they knew was cults, and that's not a good system to actually help people.
Cult is just a word for small religions. Jesus started a cult and people don't judge him for it anymore.
OP didn't say it was good or bad. Just that it makes sense for them because they thought it was what they like.
What if the system you know doesn't make sense to you?
That's not the question. The question is just if you find it to enable the kind of life you value. If your experience is that a system doesn't do this, don't support it. This isn't that complicated lol
Then OP ought to change the second "to" to "will" to avoid confusion.
That's not what "makes sense" means tho...
If you're out of gas, it "makes sense" to go to a gas station and get gas, that fixes the problem
If your parents beat you, it doesn't "make sense" to beat your own kids because that's what you think a normal home life is. You're still doing something illogical, and it's not fixing anything.
We can understand why past experiences and trauma make someone make the choices they do, but that doesn't mean it "makes sense".
Fuck man, I understand what trump does a lot of the stupid shit he does, that doesn't mean it "makes sense" just that I can follow his illogical reasoning.
Same with those people who started a cult.
The "makes sense" in the op means that from the perspective of the doer, it makes sense. OP is not saying that it's "objectively beneficial to all humans".
It's a description of how people make choices.
Maybe that's how they meant it...
Maybe that's how you interpreted it...
Lots of people also think vaccines cause autism, and when they say it, they mean it. It doesn't mean they're right, it just means they're willing to put effort in defending their erroneous position.
Someone replying over and over till the other person gives up, doesn't mean they're right. Often it just means the other person gave up explaining and likely blocked them.
Makes sense for me to interpret what OP said in that way because I find logic and reading comprehension worthwhile for life.
This guy always blocks everyone that shows him he's wrong about something.