Message from @Ape

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2018-06-07 05:03:57 UTC  

It's the love that god has for mankind, the desire to see the universe fulfilled within us essentially.

2018-06-07 05:04:03 UTC  

ah, agape. I've been through enough catholic school to know what that means

2018-06-07 05:04:24 UTC  

I think the fulfillment of the universe, reaching the potential that we have and ever increasing our potential as an expression of universal will itself is "Good".

2018-06-07 05:04:59 UTC  

which is why liberalistism is a faulty ideology that is dumbo's first "philosophy"

2018-06-07 05:05:02 UTC  

well wouldn't expanded personal freedoms allow people to reach that potential easier?

2018-06-07 05:05:12 UTC  

not necessarily.

2018-06-07 05:05:22 UTC  

Personal freedoms, from what?

2018-06-07 05:05:25 UTC  

moreso than no personal freedoms

2018-06-07 05:05:29 UTC  

from state tyranny

2018-06-07 05:05:34 UTC  

State tyranny? Sure.

2018-06-07 05:05:37 UTC  

How about gender?

2018-06-07 05:05:41 UTC  

Freedom from work?

2018-06-07 05:05:52 UTC  

if people are allowed to operate in their own interests as they see fit, then they get to determine what their own potential is and reach it.

2018-06-07 05:05:55 UTC  

Freedom from genetic disadvantage due to your background?

2018-06-07 05:06:06 UTC  

freedom from other people doing harmful stuff to you. Now what stuff is harmful is another discussion

2018-06-07 05:06:20 UTC  

well its positive rights vs. negative rights

2018-06-07 05:06:28 UTC  

Well

2018-06-07 05:06:30 UTC  

what if you're a communist?

2018-06-07 05:06:40 UTC  

harmful stuff should happen to you.

2018-06-07 05:07:04 UTC  

communists are ideologically wrong, but political belief doesn't justify violence

2018-06-07 05:07:15 UTC  

Why not?

2018-06-07 05:07:20 UTC  

What if they're about to be voted into power?

2018-06-07 05:07:23 UTC  

Civil war is violence.

2018-06-07 05:07:38 UTC  

put the shoe on the other foot, "what if you're a fascist, harmful stuff should happen to you"

2018-06-07 05:07:39 UTC  

Should we not have gone into civil war against the south to destroy slavery?

2018-06-07 05:07:51 UTC  

ok. "What if you believe in slavery, should bad stuff happen to you?"

2018-06-07 05:08:04 UTC  

We shouldn't have invaded the south, just let them have slaves.

2018-06-07 05:08:11 UTC  

@Ape, as a Catholic, I agree. I think that we can say God is good. And so conforming to God's will is good. So our actions ought to conform to God's will. But, I'm curious, how do you think we ought to conform ourselves to God's will?

2018-06-07 05:08:18 UTC  

if they try to instate slavery, and forcibly enslave other people, then yes

2018-06-07 05:08:34 UTC  

then its self defense

2018-06-07 05:09:02 UTC  

Communists are trying to instate communism, and forcibly enslave other people. So while violence against individuals may be beyond the pale, institutional discrimination against communist groups is simply the logical result.

2018-06-07 05:09:36 UTC  

I believe preemptively harming them is not the answer

2018-06-07 05:09:39 UTC  

yup, and i agree with what you have just said, ape.

2018-06-07 05:09:45 UTC  

what is your point?

2018-06-07 05:10:06 UTC  

ok, institutional discrimination against ideologies is different

2018-06-07 05:10:07 UTC  

harming? No, discriminating against to stop them from spreading their ideology? Yes. Not letting them organize into political parties ect.

2018-06-07 05:10:14 UTC  

you are out in the philisophical weeds here, connect it back for me.

2018-06-07 05:10:26 UTC  

So you agree

2018-06-07 05:10:29 UTC  

freedom is not the highest value.

2018-06-07 05:10:40 UTC  

People who value freedom as the highest value are simply opening us up to infiltration by harmful actors.

2018-06-07 05:10:41 UTC  

i agree that you have accurately described a communist.