it's a lens

right?

My mum literally did this when I said I wanted to read Mein Kampf so I can understand extremism better, the first thing she did was look up a psychologist who had analyzed and dissected the book so I could read that instead. I almost went like "bitch what?" 😄

Okay let’s assume you do. Then one source may explain it well and another badly based on how they interpret it. You don’t actually engage with the whole ideas in themselves. You just get fragments

No

Utilitarianism is, very roughly, the idea that the ends of a moral system justify the means

ETBROOD was like MGTOW bitch gimme that book

Ok yeah

Nah, gotta read the source to prevent radicalization.

I can understand that

I can skim pretty well

But trying to read just gets me confused

So is killing 10 people okay to save your wife?

radicalization is the only way to get anything done tho. no one pays attention to mundane nuanced debate these days

No I don't agree with utilitarianism

I think it's a lens to use when making a desicion

or something like that

No.

I fucking hate these terms

It’s a way to think of moral philosophy

They make everything confusing

Gotta be able to looks at Mein Kampf and go, "Okay, see where you're at and coming from, Hitler... how the fuck did you get *there*, though!?"

It IS a moral philosophy

Yes but you can use it as a lens tho

“radicalization is the only way to get anything done tho. no one pays attention to mundane nuanced debate these days”

Not true

@Laucivol exactly

I still need to buy a copy.

it is true whether you like it or not

need to understand virtue as strength and sin as weakness to get how and why Utilitarianism could be called a moral philosophy

or terms similar to these

Marxism and Egoism both sprung out of the nuances of Hegel’s philosophy

you can continue to debate and so on. meanwhile the battles will be fought and won/lost by those who are on a side.

They are VERY opposed

(Spoiler: He got there because desperate times demand desperate measures.)

He got there by being an uneducated idiot

theres nothing you can do to stop the dominos falling

Shoulda let more people explain things to him 😄 😄 😄

I try to avoid extremism

The dominos are set by philosophy though

I hard core believe in refrom