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And how are you, sophacles, not doing the same right now by appealing to high-brow marxist morality? Oh, I know, marxist morality is convenient because it allo

• sophacles 15y ago
  I'm not sure how you are getting that I am looking down on you, let alone deriving pleasure and self-identity from it. I simply was observing that your statements fit the pattern I mentioned. I think it is unfortunate that people try so hard to find ways to be superior at the expense of others, but I don't really take pleasure in the fact that I see others doing it, and I certainly don't derive my self-identity from who is my "better" or my "inferior". Nor do I think everyone is "equal" in the mathematical sense, but that is not really what egalitarian means; such accusations, and the equating of egalitarianism to Marxism, are merely strawmen.
  • bluekeybox 15y ago
    It is an unfortunate consequence of the Internet that people get to argue with each other without knowing who they really are. I don't need to see others worse off than myself in order to be happy. I just need to remember who I myself was two or five years ago. I am rapidly becoming someone else, a larva turning into a butterfly if you forgive the hackneyed expression. To you, the opinions I express signify contempt towards others. In reality, the only true contempt I experience is towards paths I almost took when I was growing up. Without that contempt there would be hardly any growth. By the way, there is a good movie by French director Godard called "Contempt". One of my favorite quotes is from that movie: "Oh, the gods... I know exactly how they feel."