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Name: Anonymous 2021-03-03 22:22

A niggers anus is more entertaining than this board
Explain yourselves

Name: Anonymous 2021-03-04 1:08

entertaining value
expecting to be entertained on an offtopic board
You see, there are intrinsic and extrinsic definitions. An extrinsic definition of evil might be "that which we avoid". But an intrinsic definition of evil is yet to be found. Here in comes choice. What is choice? It is the case when, through calculation, some thing is preferred over another. What kind of calculation? A calculation of goods and evils? Goods and evils which aren't intrinsically defined? Yes, whence comes forward a strange loop. We must acquire our values somehow, before we can choose. We cannot acquire them by choice yet, because we cannot choose yet without having them. So it is as the Sussman koan says "random prejudices", the initial state of the world. That thing called instinct has been perfected through many generations, to give us good prejudices on which to rely to start life. Afterwards we can do what many philosophers have tried, which is to examine our prejudices of childhood while agreeing on some simple rules of behaviour to not be paralyzed while making choices. This has been a similar project from Descartes' Method to Nietzsche's Transvaluation. Heck, even Socrates' "The unexamined life is not worth living" quote comes to mind.

This self-analysis is hard to do. What do we value the most? Why do we value it? Have we been acting blindly, have we let empathy rob us of our true selves, letting others make our decisions for us?

Entertainment, to take your example, is doubtful. It is produced by others, and you consume it passively. Its opposite might be work, action (maybe). All existentialists talk of work as the motivating purpose of a (social) life. Work is where we can be creative. Maybe you've beeen "programmed" (or subtly instructed) to search for that which would bring you least fulfillment, and avoid that which would bring you the most.

Arbeit macht Frei. Free as independent, as standing-on-own-feet.

But this is just me trying to help guide your own reflection, ultimately it is you who has to make it. I fear donating too much of my prejudices to you, and having just another copy of myself going around. This is the danger of making friends, and just talking in general.

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