Why there is no such thing as a bad person

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Evolution is an unthinking process, and evolutionary mutations may make people into pedophiles, and sometimes what evolution produces doesn't coalesce with the laws of humanity. Anyone who commits crimes is a product of nature, and should therefor not be judged, as we are all products of nature and are at each other's throats because of tribalism, regardless.


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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
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That's true, because the universe is deterministic and ultimately you have no real choice, but punishment of crimes is just an extension of the evolutionary mechanisms that result in beneficial traits.


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That's true, because the universe is deterministic and ultimately you have no real choice, but punishment of crimes is just an extension of the evolutionary mechanisms that result in beneficial traits.
It's kinda sad, because that's sort of like a kind of eugenics. But yes, the human being is basically an unthinking process, no different from evolution. Human beings are just a conglomeration of cells, those cells aren't intelligent, they just have competence to do their job. Some argue that intelligence isn't actually intelligence, it's just multiple layers of competences.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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You would be right if "natural" had any value whatsoever. What's natural or unnatural doesn't fucking matter - what causes suffering or doesn't does.


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You would be right if "natural" had any value whatsoever. What's natural or unnatural doesn't fucking matter - what causes suffering or doesn't does.
"If nature had any value whatsoever." That just sounds so fucked up lol.


 
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NO I WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. I HAVE THINGS TO SAY, BIG THINGS. YOU WILL NOT KEEP ME DOWN WITH YOUR WORDS. THEY'VE TRIED BEFORE, AND THEY WILL TRY AGAIN, BUT I WILL STAND TALL IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY. YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW AND YOU'RE NOT SO BIG!


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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
shut the fuck up
NO I WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. I HAVE THINGS TO SAY, BIG THINGS. YOU WILL NOT KEEP ME DOWN WITH YOUR WORDS. THEY'VE TRIED BEFORE, AND THEY WILL TRY AGAIN, BUT I WILL STAND TALL IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY. YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW AND YOU'RE NOT SO BIG!

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Long live NoNolesNeckin.

Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
No judgement should be passed if you have no desire for the creation of order out of chaos.

However, most people desire to create order out of chaos ergo they must pass judgement.


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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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You would be right if "natural" had any value whatsoever. What's natural or unnatural doesn't fucking matter - what causes suffering or doesn't does.
"If nature had any value whatsoever." That just sounds so fucked up lol.
Nature has no value, at all. Explain to me how it does.

Nature, and existence itself, is usually immoral. Nine times out of ten it is, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that.


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Nine times out of ten it is

What's the one out of ten


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The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.

Not because of some appeal to nature.

However, the appeal to nature holds stock in certain instances of human behavior, such as diet and an array of other lifestyle choices, because we have many imperical ways of measuring the style of life which any organism should lead.


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Nine times out of ten it is

What's the one out of ten
Weed, mushrooms, poppies, and other mind altering forms of life.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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Nine times out of ten it is

What's the one out of ten
Nature gives us receptors in our mouth that allow us to get pleasure (tasting), and plants that taste good when put in those receptors. Another example, nature gives us receptors in our brain tbat allow us to get pleasure (feeling) and plants that feel good when put in those receptors.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Wrong. Morality is objective as long as suffering exists. We draw all morality from the simple maxim that suffering is bad.


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Long live NoNolesNeckin.

Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Morality is objective as long as suffering exists.
To me this implies that morality is not objective but merely axiomatic. For me to understand it as objective, it would have to be more than just a concept conditioned by the subjective experience of sentient beings.

Ultimately nature does not define morality in any way, and without sentience to conceptualize morality, it doesn't exist.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Morality is objective as long as suffering exists.
To me this implies that morality is not objective but merely axiomatic. For me to understand it as objective, it would have to be more than just a concept conditioned by the subjective experience of sentient beings.

Ultimately nature does not define morality in any way, and without sentience to conceptualize morality, it doesn't exist.
Concepitalizing something =/= making it exist

Sentient beings can interpret something, sure. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist if it can't be interpreted.

If nothing but a predator and its prey existed, say a lion and a gazelle, it would still be highly immoral for the lion to eat the gazelle. Neither the lion nor gazelle would know it was an immoral act, but it still is.


 
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Nine times out of ten it is
What's the one out of ten
Weed, mushrooms, poppies, and other mind altering forms of life.
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Long live NoNolesNeckin.

Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Morality is objective as long as suffering exists.
To me this implies that morality is not objective but merely axiomatic. For me to understand it as objective, it would have to be more than just a concept conditioned by the subjective experience of sentient beings.

Ultimately nature does not define morality in any way, and without sentience to conceptualize morality, it doesn't exist.
Concepitalizing something =/= making it exist

Sentient beings can interpret something, sure. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist if it can't be interpreted.

If nothing but a predator and its prey existed, say a lion and a gazelle, it would still be highly immoral for the lion to eat the gazelle. Neither the lion nor gazelle would know it was an immoral act, but it still is.
When something is entirely a concept then yes, conceptualizing it is what brings it into existence.

It would seem that you define morality as the absence of harming or perhaps the absence of the conditioning of suffering. However that is not how I define it at all. Morality is not defined within nature. Reality does not present us with meaning to any phenomena that we encounter and experience, meaning arises as the result of our interpretation of these phenomena.

Morality for me is the path that leads to the minimization of suffering, not necessarily the actual absence of suffering or its roots. This definition is the result of my interpretation of suffering and what conditions it, and it would not exist without my conceptualizing it.
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Once I realized that it would be impossible to rationalize people as either "good" or "evil" is when I discovered that heaven and hell could not exist and became an atheist shortly afterward.

Spoiler
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The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Wrong. Morality is objective as long as suffering exists. We draw all morality from the simple maxim that suffering is bad.
We know pain that we may recognize happiness.


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if youre not meming and want people to take your posts seriously you should consider posting them in serious

even though that isnt a guarantee
it's loaf ofc it's a meme


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NO I WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. I HAVE THINGS TO SAY, BIG THINGS. YOU WILL NOT KEEP ME DOWN WITH YOUR WORDS. THEY'VE TRIED BEFORE, AND THEY WILL TRY AGAIN, BUT I WILL STAND TALL IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY. YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW, YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW AND YOU'RE NOT SO BIG!


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Morality is objective as long as suffering exists.
To me this implies that morality is not objective but merely axiomatic. For me to understand it as objective, it would have to be more than just a concept conditioned by the subjective experience of sentient beings.

Ultimately nature does not define morality in any way, and without sentience to conceptualize morality, it doesn't exist.
Concepitalizing something =/= making it exist

Sentient beings can interpret something, sure. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist if it can't be interpreted.

If nothing but a predator and its prey existed, say a lion and a gazelle, it would still be highly immoral for the lion to eat the gazelle. Neither the lion nor gazelle would know it was an immoral act, but it still is.
When something is entirely a concept then yes, conceptualizing it is what brings it into existence.

It would seem that you define morality as the absence of harming or perhaps the absence of the conditioning of suffering. However that is not how I define it at all. Morality is not defined within nature. Reality does not present us with meaning to any phenomena that we encounter and experience, meaning arises as the result of our interpretation of these phenomena.

Morality for me is the path that leads to the minimization of suffering, not necessarily the actual absence of suffering or its roots. This definition is the result of my interpretation of suffering and what conditions it, and it would not exist without my conceptualizing it.
I simply disagree. Suffering is an INHERENT evil, and from that basic maxim we derive an objective morality.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Wrong. Morality is objective as long as suffering exists. We draw all morality from the simple maxim that suffering is bad.
We know pain that we may recognize happiness.
And that's fucked up. Humans need suffering to be able to recognize happiness, sure - and that's the fucking problem. It shouldn't be that way, humans should be able to live in a state of constant bliss, without any pain or war or strife, and we should be able to live that way without needing suffering to recognize it.

Anything short of that, and nonexistence is the preferable alternative.


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Long live NoNolesNeckin.

Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
The real reason the is no sych thing as an objectively bad person is because good/bad is non-imperical and therefore unguagable.
Morality is objective as long as suffering exists.
To me this implies that morality is not objective but merely axiomatic. For me to understand it as objective, it would have to be more than just a concept conditioned by the subjective experience of sentient beings.

Ultimately nature does not define morality in any way, and without sentience to conceptualize morality, it doesn't exist.
Concepitalizing something =/= making it exist

Sentient beings can interpret something, sure. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist if it can't be interpreted.

If nothing but a predator and its prey existed, say a lion and a gazelle, it would still be highly immoral for the lion to eat the gazelle. Neither the lion nor gazelle would know it was an immoral act, but it still is.
When something is entirely a concept then yes, conceptualizing it is what brings it into existence.

It would seem that you define morality as the absence of harming or perhaps the absence of the conditioning of suffering. However that is not how I define it at all. Morality is not defined within nature. Reality does not present us with meaning to any phenomena that we encounter and experience, meaning arises as the result of our interpretation of these phenomena.

Morality for me is the path that leads to the minimization of suffering, not necessarily the actual absence of suffering or its roots. This definition is the result of my interpretation of suffering and what conditions it, and it would not exist without my conceptualizing it.
I simply disagree. Suffering is an INHERENT evil, and from that basic maxim we derive an objective morality.
I get that you disagree, it's just perplexing that you see morality as inherent and more than just a concept when no meaning could ever be derived from suffering without the subjective interpretation of sentient beings.