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>2 BOTTOM-UP MORALITY
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>Cntrfrc has spent a lot of words fighting his disillussion with human kind.
>Although understandable, he makes the big mistake of first deciding how
>it SHOULD BE and subsequently imposing that on HOW IT IS. I think the
>controverse between IT'S LIKE THAT and IT SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THAT
>not only is highly present in attitudes towards socio-ethical problems,
>but also in the individual lives of people.
Did anyone ever consider the fact that maybe it's not only problematic to
say "it SHOULD be like this", but irrelevant?
Personally, I do not believe that anything in the world today could be
anything other than what it is. Immorality, killing, and hate HAVE to exist.
Good, caring, and compassion HAS to exist.
This does not mean that we should stop helping other, doing charity work,
and trying to improve our world; only that our world, as it is now, could be
no other way. Leibniz used to refer to the world as "the best of all
possible worlds", and I believe that. Human beings are dual natured; a world
without immorality would be dull, garish, and would naturally feel "wrong".
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