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I would argue that just because Nash had paranoid schizophrenic does not mean that application of his theories are inherently psychotic. Otherwise we would pai

• scarecrowbob 2y ago
  On one hand, yeah, I agree. On the other hand, I think that being willing to murder millions of people for literally any reason might be a marker of some psychiatric issue. Deciding that it can come down to "cold reason" just makes it worse. themaninthedark, I understood your position before you restated it. For instance, when you wrote "almost every society has done the same thing.(There a a few, small groups that may not have i.e. small tribes in the Amazon)" , the "few small groups" is exactly what I am talking about when I describe how people in this culture "do not see other groups of humans as "human"". I understand, deeply and intimately, this idea because it's so prevalent that it is almost like water surrounding fish. I suppose that to be a "real" civilization is to be willing and able to incinerate the planet (through economic or military power), so it's no surprise that you're not seeing the vast majority of folks on the planet who despise that line of thought. That desire to dominate has often seemed to me to be the resurgence of the buried Christian Dominionism which has been repressed to the root of most classically liberal thought- if you can't control yourself through reason then are you a person? If you can't dispose of the world through the dictates of your reason, are you really a government?