Message from @fallot

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2017-08-04 18:18:45 UTC  

and argue that it procedes from biology

2017-08-04 18:18:46 UTC  

yeah, it has to be "God the Father" to work

2017-08-04 18:18:51 UTC  

to work well

2017-08-04 18:18:56 UTC  

to work okay, you can sub in Darwin maybe

2017-08-04 18:19:01 UTC  

I appreciate the procession from biology but

2017-08-04 18:19:11 UTC  

that also removes your ability to raise this one aspect

2017-08-04 18:19:22 UTC  

and also, it reduces to utilitarianism

2017-08-04 18:19:30 UTC  

because your argument is ultimately "this works"

2017-08-04 18:19:41 UTC  

no framework for what working ultimately is, or what is good or bad

2017-08-04 18:19:49 UTC  

ignoring the ultimate metaphysics

2017-08-04 18:19:57 UTC  

hence always prey to the bigger scope of leftism

2017-08-04 18:20:36 UTC  

I think there's another question here as well

2017-08-04 18:20:49 UTC  

why do you, or anyone else, feel a draw to secular right etc. at all?

2017-08-04 18:21:02 UTC  

No, and I note in the post that you would need to develop that framework a lot a lot. I was just interested in whether there was a workable basis

2017-08-04 18:21:03 UTC  

why is it good that things works out, rather than they be changed

2017-08-04 18:21:05 UTC  

even at a cost

2017-08-04 18:21:07 UTC  

for some moral good

2017-08-04 18:21:39 UTC  

I don't, my only interest in a secular right is in shifting a large block of US voters

2017-08-04 18:21:58 UTC  

I now think there is no workable basis, ultimately

2017-08-04 18:22:01 UTC  

but temporarily?

2017-08-04 18:22:11 UTC  

I think you could do it, I would consider it evil however

2017-08-04 18:22:41 UTC  

I wish there was a workable framework, it would make things much easier

2017-08-04 18:23:14 UTC  

Eh. Everyone is religious. Some people just have a certain misinterpretation of what religion is and call themselves atheists and oppose themselves to random doctrine

2017-08-04 18:23:56 UTC  

A secular rightism that appeals to them on those terms but causes them to follow the action of a fundamentally religious ideology

2017-08-04 18:24:21 UTC  

could eventually correct their adolescent reaction to "religion" haha

2017-08-04 18:24:22 UTC  

idk

2017-08-04 18:24:27 UTC  

just a thought experiment

2017-08-04 18:24:46 UTC  

yeah, I understand dont worry about it

2017-08-04 18:24:47 UTC  

happy to engage

2017-08-04 18:25:05 UTC  

I've had the same thought

2017-08-04 18:25:12 UTC  

about reaction -> religion

2017-08-04 18:25:29 UTC  

there's a couple of really big problems with that though

2017-08-04 18:25:49 UTC  

number 1 is just being able to accept it

2017-08-04 18:26:42 UTC  

after that there is the issue that if someone is misled into thinking that ultimately there can be a secular "reaction", they will be further from religion than if they had simply experienced the hypocritical degeneration of PC morality

2017-08-04 18:27:03 UTC  

and more: it leads to an inhuman style of thinking

2017-08-04 18:27:17 UTC  

which I feel ultimately deadens one to reception of such stuff

2017-08-04 18:27:28 UTC  

in a way honest leftism does not

2017-08-04 18:27:31 UTC  

2 is a good point

2017-08-04 18:27:51 UTC  

for the last point, Nietzsche is the best example

2017-08-04 18:28:04 UTC  

ultimately a tragic figure

2017-08-04 18:28:45 UTC  

the concern I have with that perspective is first that these slides happen on such a bigger-than-human timeframe it's hard for some people to connect the dots. They don't necessarily even see that they have problems, much less that their neurotic leftist moralising is causing those problems