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There's no such thing as society. The world's just a bunch of people.
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
There's no such thing as society. The world's just a bunch of people.
- emodendroket 8y agoThere's no such thing as a person. Organic matter's just a bunch of atoms.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoActually if you're looking for something to blame, people are it. There isn't a society to blame. That's an abstract concept only useful if you want to sabotage your ability to think about stuff.
- emodendroket 8y agoNo, you can't think about social dynamics by merely considering people as atoms in a vacuum. Well, you can, but your suppositions will have an attenuated relationship to reality.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThe only part of "society" that the guy interacted with were people he interacted with. The person who most directly caused him to murder was the victim. You're not going to be able to look at some abstract generality like "society" and come to some conclusion about why a specific murder happened. It makes just as much sense to blame "biology" for the crime.
- emodendroket 8y agoIt is an almost willfully blind perspective to pretend like societal mores, practices, beliefs, hell even language, don't exist or are irrelevant. People aren't formed in a vacuum.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoJapan has, like, the lowest murder rate. So yeah you're gonna have a hard time tying the crime to "society" except in the most pseudoscientific way.
- emodendroket 8y agoSeems like a really shallow analysis.