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The idea of being born into a caste chosen for you before birth and reinforced through biology absolutely horrifies me. The point of BNW was that there could b
by mattnewton 9y ago
The idea of being born into a caste chosen for you before birth and reinforced through biology absolutely horrifies me.
The point of BNW was that there could be effective “coercion” based on molding our desires instead of stamping them out with fear and force. The gunpoint wasn’t necessary; your prison walls were built in your head by chemistry and psychological conditioning.
- antisthenes 9y agoIt sounds bad to you because you weren't conditioned. People are stuck in lower 'castes' even these days in the most progressive countries in the world. Where's the justice in that? You have thousands if not millions of intelligent people across the world having a bad stroke of luck and being born in a different country to the wrong parents. We all have our prison walls. To pretend that the biological walls are somehow more horrifying and cruel than sociological or economical is, in my opinion, lunacy.