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>You're sure free to tell me what I think You mean you don't view any of those 3 people I mentioned as heros? Ok, This still doesn't change anything, unless yo

>You're sure free to tell me what I think You mean you don't view any of those 3 people I mentioned as heros? Ok, This still doesn't change anything, unless you're radically anti war in a way very few people are, there is someone you idol who killed far far more than Ted can ever dream of. >You don't think a cat kills 7 birds and/or rodents a year I concede this point, see my reply to your sister comment for why its just a bad phrasing of what I meant to say. I give an alternative phrasing there that better makes my point about why humans are uniquely evil. >It destroys your statement that ... But doesn't make a difference beyond that. >I don't see any possible way for you to have a consistent position here Here is a very consistent position for you : I want to destroy all sentient life or remove sentience from it, whichever is easier\faster. Failing the ideal goal of doing that to all life, a lesser goal is to do it to all humans, because : (1) they are my own species, their evil and immorality is more my responsibility than the evil or immorality of other species. (2) they have the tools and awareness to be not evil and moral, unlike most animals, and yet choose evil and immorality. (3) their number and power are unparalleled and far beyond anything on earth now, so their evil and immorality is a huge proportion of all evil and immorality.

alexvoda 4y ago
And so another suicidal terrorist sect will be born. I am flabbergasted that you lack the selfawareness to realise you are part of the very evil you decry. Not in the suicidal way, thinking that you need to be destroyed allong with all others, but in the way that instead of choosing to oppose evil, you choose evil and then claim that evil is inevitable, and then complain noone is opposing evil. I confess I also sometimes lose faith in humanity and my own powerlessness to change things at a sistematic level. And in those times I basically think that "Thanos was right" but if I were ever given that kind of unlimited power i would probably rather use it to make the problems be nonissues rather than erase sentience. Destruction often feels easier to achieve, yet once one has the power to achieve destructive effects at a certain scale, nondestructive effects at the same scale are equally achievable. You are at the very small scale of murder (individual action) and proselitising murder (convincing others). At that same scale you can attempt any other individual action and attempt to convince others of anything else.
sacrosancty 4y ago
I think you have some good philosophical points but people are too insulted by your extreme deviance from their own cultural beliefs. However, I suggest there's a good reason we don't see Ted as a hero but do some political leaders who killed more innocents. It's that almost nobody has the wherewithal to do national-leader level killings but everybody can do what Ted K did so there's much more risk encouraging it. You make an interesting current-time relevant point about anti-war. Look how many people say they're opposed to war in Ukraine and at the same time say they stand by Ukraine - oblivious to the fact that they're supporting one of the parties conducting the war! Turns out they're not anti-war as soon as it comes to using it to maintain the political power of their favored groups.

alexvoda 4y ago

And so another suicidal terrorist sect will be born. I am flabbergasted that you lack the selfawareness to realise you are part of the very evil you decry. Not in the suicidal way, thinking that you need to be destroyed allong with all others, but in the way that instead of choosing to oppose evil, you choose evil and then claim that evil is inevitable, and then complain noone is opposing evil. I confess I also sometimes lose faith in humanity and my own powerlessness to change things at a sistematic level. And in those times I basically think that "Thanos was right" but if I were ever given that kind of unlimited power i would probably rather use it to make the problems be nonissues rather than erase sentience. Destruction often feels easier to achieve, yet once one has the power to achieve destructive effects at a certain scale, nondestructive effects at the same scale are equally achievable. You are at the very small scale of murder (individual action) and proselitising murder (convincing others). At that same scale you can attempt any other individual action and attempt to convince others of anything else.

sacrosancty 4y ago

I think you have some good philosophical points but people are too insulted by your extreme deviance from their own cultural beliefs. However, I suggest there's a good reason we don't see Ted as a hero but do some political leaders who killed more innocents. It's that almost nobody has the wherewithal to do national-leader level killings but everybody can do what Ted K did so there's much more risk encouraging it. You make an interesting current-time relevant point about anti-war. Look how many people say they're opposed to war in Ukraine and at the same time say they stand by Ukraine - oblivious to the fact that they're supporting one of the parties conducting the war! Turns out they're not anti-war as soon as it comes to using it to maintain the political power of their favored groups.