2011-05-06, 07:30 | Link #13501 | |
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Scientist seeks to banish evil, boost empathy
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Take the Crusades for example - both the Muslims and the Christians attempted to murder and convert each other to their religion, and the foot soldiers thought that their religion is "good". It resulted in a greater "evil" of massacres and deaths. You can't understand something that doesn't exist. Super-entities don't, but we do know our enemies do exist. Why not try to understand them instead? Come to think of it, rejecting the idea of God may be the first step to eliminating evil. Then again, there are some people who find "God" as their sole reason not to do evil acts, so that might not be a perfect solution at all.
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2011-05-06, 07:40 | Link #13502 | |
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2011-05-06, 08:20 | Link #13503 | |
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thats not what i would consider a good reason to be good.
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2011-05-06, 08:35 | Link #13504 |
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I debate a little about how much Nazism had to do with psychopathic behavior. Cause you don't clinically need to be a monster to engage in mass murder/genocide/war crimes. A massive logistical operation like the Holocaust (including mass killings) of tens of millions of people just doesn't work if it requires all the participants be mentally disturbed.
We should know from the Milgram and Standford experiments that perfectly normal people can do monstrous things just by manipulating their environments. And this was under systems where there was no duress of punishment (Milgram) or everyone knew it was an experiment (Stanford). Those experiments should tell you all you need to know in why people could go along with the Holocaust. |
2011-05-06, 09:04 | Link #13505 | ||
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That is their problem. Not mine.
Besides, it should be an interesting social experiment to anger them and drive them to shorten their lifespan. When they are gone, we shall see if the world has become worse or better. Khomieni's death allowed people like Mousavi to helm Iran for a brief period, so maybe the death of Khamieni and Ahmadinejad will open up Iran to moderate Islam. Then again, it may create a new Al-Qaeda when the Basij move into hiding with extremist groups like Jeemah Islamiah. Besides, most of the religious folks I have seen are all talk and no action, or just do the bare minimum to burish their image to the public. We don't have people like Gandhi or Mother Theresa going out there to make a difference for the marginalised anymore. Quote:
I am a proponent for Le Chatelier's Principle to be applied on all scales. It is either that or there is some NWO organisation running this entire world so no absolute system can be applied, and that no matter how well-crafted a policy is, someone is bound to not benefit from it. Quote:
However, there are people who adapt accordingly instead of breaking under duress, and some theorists have argued that it is personal psychology that acts as a shield against mental breakdown (self-confidence, belief system, etc), while others argued that there may be a genetic factor not yet discovered by the HGP. Also, there has been a consistent result that people who adapt the most have been subjected to a slighter form of hardship previously that allow them to weather abrupt changes and not break down so easily. Or they have been broken by the previous hardship that they have been hardened. Either way, it might be nature's way of diversifying the entire human noosphere to make each of us a mystery to another - it forces people to communicate and to understand each other.
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2011-05-06, 09:27 | Link #13506 | |
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Well, guess the "time travel ban" is real. I was being naive before.
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2011-05-06, 09:33 | Link #13507 | |
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2011-05-06, 09:36 | Link #13508 | |
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2011-05-06, 10:03 | Link #13511 | |
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2011-05-06, 10:52 | Link #13512 |
Me, An Intellectual
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I guess the Lib Dems shouldn't have broken that promise on tution fees huh...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13297573 And yep, the people of Scotland raised a collective middle finger to the Labor Party and went for the SNP. They have the majority.
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2011-05-06, 11:28 | Link #13513 | |
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2011-05-06, 11:44 | Link #13515 | |
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empathy rather then expecting reward/punishment
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2011-05-06, 12:29 | Link #13516 | |
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I thought it was more a desire for power that leads people to oppress, harm, kill, and massacre other humans. Because through those methods a person is able to force another person to do what they want them to do. Whether it's a rapist forcing another person to have sex with them, or a leader of a country telling his citizenry how to live their lives, the reason is exactly the same--Power.
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2011-05-06, 12:47 | Link #13518 | |
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The Germans did the same thing by portraying their enemies as inferior beings, or in the case of holocaust victims, vermin. It's all about empathy. People aren't naturally inclined to harm others knowingly. So the rapist decieves himself into thinking the woman "wants it", or that women are inferior (though sexuality is a bit different, people do get off on power etc.), and the reason the leader tell his people how to lead their lives, is because he truly believes he is better then them. How else could he have become leader? |
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2011-05-06, 13:01 | Link #13519 | |
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You can understand what another person feels and still view them as less than you are. The Soviets did this numerous times. Stalin (during the 5 phase plan of the 1930s) was fully aware of how the peasants felt, he just didn't give a shit and stole their land anyway because of his desire for power.
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2011-05-06, 13:35 | Link #13520 | ||
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For instance the concentration camps were designed to remove personal responsibility from any single individual, and at the same time, they were continually reinforced with the idea that the people they were "processing" were vermin. |
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