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You don't see much evil to handicapping the entire human race?
by shaftoe 7y ago
You don't see much evil to handicapping the entire human race?
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoYou don't see much evil in the absence of strategic intelligence required to avoid terraforming your own planet to make it less habitable?
- Kaiyou 7y agoEvil needs agency, so no, I don't see evil in the absence of something.
- rbrtl 7y ago"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
- Kaiyou 7y agoEmphasize on "good men". They're not evil for doing nothing.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoA convenient abdication of responsibility, isnt it? We we not responsible for plane crash/ financial crysis / climate change, it just happened!
- Kaiyou 7y agoI was talking about evil, not responsibility.
- jhrmnn 7y agoWhat about the absence of resistance to evil? Perhaps not evil per se, but one could call it absence of good.
- Kaiyou 7y agoThat depends on your definition of 'good', I guess. I wouldn't say that you have to fight evil to be good.
- coldtea 7y agoFor one, societies do have agency. People decide every day, with who they elect, where they spend their money, how they live. You don't need a conscious goal of X to act in a way that brings X. And if you know that your actions are part of the problem and you still doing them, that's even worse. Second, evil needs agency only when we talk of evil deeds. An outcome can be evil in itself though - not evil-doing, evil, in the sense of bad, ominous, deleterious, etc.
- homonculus1 7y agoI do, and that's what cancerous infinite growth on every dimension will eventually do to us (or is already doing?) We need to constrain growth to science and efficiency, and pull back on population and land use.
- coldtea 7y agoNo, I don't see "moar stuff, moar tech" as the ultimate reason of the human race. I'd rather the human race is happier, more self-fulfilled, friendlier, with more solidarity, and better allocation of its resources, than it expanding forever... If anything, I see much evil in "not handicapping" the human race, and ruining the planet, the animal life, and the human race in the process.