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Morals

Name: Anonymous 2018-06-24 4:19

What do you value in life? List specific things instead of labels such as political parties.

Name: Anonymous 2018-06-24 17:39

>>2
I'm not trying to rip apart what you said, but I just want to talk about it. Please don't misinterpret my post.

Comfort
Comfort is dangerous. It seems nice, but it makes you weak, and contributes to over-consumption and pollution. It feeds the current flawed capitalist system.

Individualism
In other words, not caring about your community. It's important to be a part of a group that's bigger than yourself. Individuality is antisocial. You don't have to let other people dictate your entire personality, because that would be dumb. But too much individuality harms community. No man is an island.

Tolerance
Is it good to tolerate mosquito bites? Is it good to tolerate a cockroach infestation? Do you tolerate your own replacement? The media makes it sound like tolerance is a good thing, but it is actually bad in a lot of ways. Tolerance is similar to apathy or ignorance. Discrimination isn't as bad as people say it is. It has a purpose. Let's say you harvest some apples. Some of the apples are good, but some are rotten. Some are infested with bugs. Tolerating the bad ones will harm the good ones. Discrimination is vital for survival. Unchecked tolerance will be your own undoing.

vegetarianism
Vegetarians claim that meat is bad because it harms animals. But consider this: our mere existence harms and destroys entire ecosystems. Even being vegetarian won't change that. There are simply too many people and our lives are too destructive. Colony collapse disorder. Roadkill. Deforestation. Extinction. Endangered species. All of these things can exist in a 100% vegetarian society. "Save the whales" bumper stickers, "green" organic vegan food at the grocery store, and recycling won't save anything. Those things are a drop in the bucket. The only way to make significant change would be to completely restructure society, but people don't want to do that. People don't want to give up their comforts. Not even you.

old videogames and anime
Nostalgic about those particular things from the past based on their objective qualities, or is it more nostalgia about when you were younger and more innocent and unaware of all the upsetting things in the world? I sometimes find myself feeling nostalgic, and I think it's more to do with the latter.

Ancient Egyptian/Mesopotamian Mythology.
Zoroastrianism? Why?

Mostly Free Market
The tragedy of the commons. The problem with a free market is that it allows people to make seemingly innocent decisions that are actually collectively harmful. Think of it like this: if you examine a drop of water, and bring everyone's attention to the small scale rather than the large, they will think water can do no harm simply because a single drop of water has no harmful properties. But the problem isn't an individual drop of water. A flood is nothing but drops of water put together, but there are emergent properties of harm that come with large scales. Individual, people might think they're not contributing to overpopulation, over-consumption, unsustainability, climate change, and so on. But the problem isn't a single person. The problem is with billions of people.

Economic Centrism
Fence-sitting, basically.

LGBTQIAP+ rights
Why is this something people concentrate so much on? Both conservatives and liberals have silently agreed to care so much about unimportant issues like this. They have different views on it, but on any given day, LGBT shit doesn't affect my life. You know what does affect my life? Taxes, immigration, pollution, and the fact that, as a species, we are heading down the path to destruction with our disgusting modern lifestyles. But people don't want to talk about that. They would rather talk at length about whether it's okay for a dude to have a dick in his ass or not. People care more about that than the fact that we're melting the ice caps, replacing European populations, and ultimately going to kill ourselves off if we don't make drastic changes soon. What is wrong with the world?

Modern culture is awful. It's just buying things, consuming media, throwing things away, being disconnected from your roots, only being a part of sports groups instead of meaningful ones, etc. Video games and anime are just escapist consumerist garbage. It doesn't encourage you to live a more meaningful life. It's just temporary escapism. We are also way too concerned about entertainment and leisure instead of purpose and doing what is right. People focus too much on wants rather than needs now. Materialism and fun-seeking. Communities and interaction are dead. Long replaced by screens and narcissism and gluttony.

I'd say we could lead more important lives by respecting nature and adopting more ascetic habits. Religion, nature, community, sustainability, and no self-hatred when it comes to race. No replacement. Concentrate on meaning rather than how many dollars you can make. But don't bend over backwards for certain groups just because the telescreen tells you it's progressive to do so.

Strong Social Safety Nets/Basic Income
UBI is an incomplete reaction to bigger systemic issues. We need to fundamentally restructure society and culture before we can think about thing like income. Unchecked capitalism wants everything to be competitive, which means many people don't have job security. Capitalism and globalist multiculturalism is part of the reason why many have economic issues. There are some winners, but many losers made through this system.

Libertarianism
Never go full retard.

Isolationism and non-interventionism
Oh no, what are you doing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Government sponsored science/research
Bias and manipulation always seep in. It becomes weaponized and politicized. Scientists say LGBT is natural, so let's destroy the idea of the nuclear family. Scientists say we need more diversity. Scientists say you should consume more. And so on. More than that, people often conduct experiments and get data on useless subjects. All while leading nihilistic lives devoid of meaning. I like Linkola's attitude towards science and technology. It has a purpose in some ways, but it is often misguided and also overemphasized. I am saying this as a STEM major, by the way.

Pro-eugenics
Would you still be pro-eugenics if it turned out that your genes were deemed to be bad? Who has the final say in what genetics are good and what genetics should be weeded out of the gene pool? I think gene editing is more likely. It's already being researched in China. The West is afraid to touch it because of moral issues. Instead of telling someone they can't reproduce because they have webbed feet, you can just alter their genes so their kids won't have the same problem.

Pro-nuclear energy/Thorium reactors
I used to be ro-nuclear all the way, but there's still the problem of the nuclear waste lasting for too long and there not being a good place to put it all. If we had a space elevator, that might not be a problem. But we don't.

Pro-solar energy
It sounds good, but there are issues with people switching from the power grid to solar. If more people have their own solar panels, power companies will have fewer customers. Their operating costs will still be similar, if not the same. So in order to offset the lack of profit, they will have to increase prices. Do you see where I'm going with this? People who are privileged enough to have money for solar panels can then get rid of their utility bills, but in doing so they are causing poor people to have to spend more on electricity because of the diminishing customer base. Poor people won't be able to afford solar panels, so they will have to continue to use the power grid, and when the power grid is in decline, it will cost more and more. Life can be very expensive when you're poor, since you can't afford the more cost-effective things that are cheaper in the long run but cost more up-front. So the proper way to do solar would involve a lot of planning, not just individuals buying solar panels for their individual homes. Or perhaps the government could help power grids convert to solar, instead of only individual households converting. Solar farms in the middle of a sunny place in the middle of nowhere. But this issue is more complicated than a lot of solar advocates make it seem.

For reduction of fossil fuels
I agree with this too, but the problem is that it's not just technology here, it's also political since many people will lose power and money if we switch away from oil, since many economies rely on their local oil fields. You can't change the tech without changing economy.

Radical Free speech
What about subversive mainstream media that encourages people to hate your demographic and destroy your identity?

Pro-Cryptocurrency
Slow distributed databases backed by gaming graphics card hashing. Hmmm, no. At the end of the day, Bitcoin is very bad for the environment, very slow, and you can't buy very many things with it. I think a lot of people who are pro-cryptocurrency are either unaware of the underlying technology (blockchain = inefficient hashed distributed linked list) or just in denial about the numerous problems.

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