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Human moral development is the outburst of violence and ultimately the victors defining virtue and morality and law. All one has to do is look at ww2 to see thi
by porpoisely 8y ago
Human moral development is the outburst of violence and ultimately the victors defining virtue and morality and law. All one has to do is look at ww2 to see this.
"Eons ago we discovered through this cycle that rape and murder are wrong and should be met with cutting the offender off from society permanently."
When did we discover this? Our greatest heroes are murderers and rapists.
"75 years ago we discovered that systematic genocide and wars for land are wrong and should never be tolerated."
Or the countries that committed the most systematic genocide and stole the most land decided that such behavior shouldn't be tolerated since they have the most to lose now.
Laws, virtue, morality, etc are all nonsense the victors created to protect their own self interests. The human experience is that of selfishness and hypocrisy and violence. There is no virtue, laws or morality without the threat of violence. The world order is buttressed by armies not by morality, laws or virtue. Always has been and always will be.