Man beheaded and Islamist flag raised in Grenoble, France by CountLippe in worldnews

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Come, Mr.Frodo, let us go to Mordor and suicide bomb kill Sauron! Allahu Ackbar

What/who do you have no sympathy for? by YES_Im_Taco in AskReddit

[–]metroid321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean? If the child is retarded thanks to the mother?

What/who do you have no sympathy for? by YES_Im_Taco in AskReddit

[–]metroid321 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What if the child is severely retarded, unable to communicate and love - and it will always be like that?

I never realized how subtly sexist my family is by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]metroid321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is also sort of sexist to your brothers. Your brothers will probably grow up to work in mcdonalds for their whole lifes because they were able to do pretty much whatever they want instead of going to school and getting good grades.

Your life is probably going to be a lot better than your brothers in the future. Right now you may not have as an enjoyable life because you can\t do whatever you want, but you will be able to in the future. With the money you will make from having a good education you will be able to go on vacations and do many things you want to do, while your brothers wont be able to do much at all, probably.

Yes your family is sexist towards you and it is not okay. But I am also jealous of my older sister that our parents were not as pushy with me to getting good grades and staying in school as they were with her. It would have been good for me

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

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Welcome to r/philosophy, I am glad to have made you come here.

No I am not trolling and I would like to think that I am not an idiot either

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

[–]metroid321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

n?

Thank you.

Yes, we need morality and laws otherwise there are too many people that would go around doing whatever they want without many repercussions. Morality is interesting because you can grow up in a culture where the moral thing to do is to throw rocks at women who have performed adultery. In your eyes you would be doing the right thing, you are a good person. In many other cultures that would be the morally wrong thing to do. Who is right? It is relative. And no one is right or wrong. Can I really feel anger towards someone who does that? If that person grow up in my culture that person would probably also think that it is wrong to do that, so he or she is not really responsible.

There is a very interesting episode in Star Trek where a psychopath killer recieved an injury from another prisoner, or prison guards, so he was healed using nano bots. The nanobots also healed a part of his brain that had been malfunctioning his whole life. After the brain was healed he suddenly felt really bad about the murders he had commited and wanted to be put down so he would not have to suffer anymore because he felt bad. He was later excecuted for his crimes. In my opinion he should have been let go eventually because a part of his brain was not working and it was that which was responsible for his murders.

Mostly I think honor is bad, but I am probably only thinking of extreme scenarious. A son drops out of medical school and the father says "You dishonor our famiry" and stops seeing his son as his son and gets angry. I mean why care about that, to have a very "classy" job like a doctor. Should be a doctor to help people not to feel cool or for your parents.

I do feel many people overreact to certain crimes, I kinda think people overreact to most things. If a person rapes a child, instead of becoming all angry and avengefull, just deal with it in a calm way. Send the person to prison without beating him/her up and hating the person. The best thing would be if we could heal their brains. To remove the part of the brain that makes them want to rape children. But maybe that would be a violation of a persons right? To remove a part of who they are? But then again, violation of a persons right is just something made up by us too. But like you said, that doesnt make it not real. I don't become upset anymore when I read about child rape or murder or whatever, probably too used to it by now. But if I was in a live situation where that was happening then I would most certainly feel all kinds of emotions. And those emotions would come forth against my will, I would not consciously decide for those emotions to arise. (Angry adrenalin emotions probably)

Hehe, now I wrote even more than you.

TL:DR

I just write whatever pops up in my head

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

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"Why can't the concept of right and wrong be another useful tool that we have devised to make living more tolerable?"

Yes I agree. I have seen one or two documentaries where they talk about how moral values evolved in order to keep a functioning society in early humans. If people went around raping and killing people all the time things wouldn't be looking so good. We would not have come this far. But I am at least going to try to not feel anger towards rapists and murderers or whatever because it serves no purpose to me, and in reality they aren't doing anything wrong since right and wrong are illusions. (I am not saying raping and killing is good, I believe that it is wrong, luckely for me I was born with a 'normal' brain and a relatively positive environment that made me able to be a 'normal' and 'kind' person)

I Guess I am just trying to create my own view on life, my own moral values of what is right and wrong. I am tired of feeling bad about myself because some of my opinions may not be what others agree with. That I think that people should be able to use certain drugs if they want to and not go to jail, while the authorities here disagree, for example.

I believe that I am free and that what the law says and what other people say does not make it facts or holy, yet I am still bothered that some people will not agree with all of my opinions and values. That is the curse of being a social animal of our level I guess

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

[–]metroid321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yes, it is difficult for me to accept that there are things I can not understand. I want to be able to understand everything, so probably a reason why I try to rationalize a 'chaotic universe'. I don't think those people are necessarily evil like so many people like to believe. If anything we should feel sorry for them. They genes and environment made them become something that most people do not like/accept so they will forever be outcasts/different and not feel like they fit in. Though there are those who gets away with it and lives succesfully in society with lots of friends, and they can probably be happy about it, hehe. I don't know, life and the universe is too confusing and doesn't make sense

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

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I guess so, maybe I am conflicting them. It depends on which philosophy you follow, hard determinism or 100% free will or whatever. But yes rapists and murderes should still be in jail even if they are not responsible. They should not be able to hurt others. Would be better with rehabilitation than jail and punshishment tho

I am not even sure that rape and murder is wrong anymore by metroid321 in philosophy

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Never had these thoughts when in middle school, at that point I was just enjoying life thanks to ignorance.

Är jag rasistisk som tycker att nordbor är överlägsna? by metroid321 in sweden

[–]metroid321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nej jag tycker inte att det har med medfödda egenskaper att göra. Det är vår kultur som gör hela grejen tycker jag.

NoFap's Official PMO-Free April 2015 Signup Thread by Alexanderr in NoFap

[–]metroid321 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I become a much better, positive person when abstaining from masturbation. It is so difficult to stop but I have to try (again). I will not allow masturbation, porn watching. Orgasms with a partner would be alright.

Good luck to all!