Is slavery to our biological nature undignified? Is it undignified for a human to be lead to death that way?Originally Posted by Nessus
Is slavery to our biological nature undignified? Is it undignified for a human to be lead to death that way?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I will defer to professor Hogarth, who opined that one cannot be dignified in the throes of passion any more than in the agonies of pain.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
What is dignity? Its culturally determined, no?
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
It would seem so ...
Or fucked themselves into a state where death could easily claim them.
"It was like sex," says Billy. "Exciting. And ridiculous."
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