Sure, in certain circumstances. I think I agree with Chris Hallquist at least.
That’s selfishness...maximizing one’s own utility at the expense of total utility. Apparently this is OK.
A person who’s maximizing total utility is not going to grant every favor asked of them.
Red Pill ideology says women want a “naturally” successful guy, and seeing how the sausage is made is disgusting to them (male struggles, male suffering, time at the gym, time reading weird forums, steroids, shoe lifts, etc.). Roosh’s blog reveals that he is a fake, low-status, STD-spreading manipulator, which is disgusting to most women.
Women cried when they found his blog. They did not blow a raspberry in disgust. They cried because they thought they had some kind of connection with a guy who turned out to be callously manipulating them.
The Red Pill explained some painful mistakes I had made, more clearly than any other source.
I agree it’s a perspective worth keeping in mind and I said so above. I’m just saying that the case the RP folks make is overstated.
Think about it this way: Crime happens. Sometimes people get mugged. And it makes sense to take steps to protect yourself from getting mugged. Maybe you’re going to learn martial arts. Maybe you’re going to avoid walking through sketchy areas at night. Maybe you’re going to pack heat. But even though crime happens, that doesn’t mean that everyone is a criminal. It’s easy for a person who had one or two really emotionally significant muggings to update on those experiences and start assuming the world is full of criminals even if that isn’t actually the case.
I spent years in sexless relationships
I don’t think it’s normal for unmarried men to stick with women who don’t have sex with them for years, so if you don’t mind I’m going to psychoanalyze you a little bit.
It sounds to me like what might have happened in your case is that you focused really hard on being “good” and not so much on being “powerful” (see my good power attraction equation from above). You were passed over by women looking for monogamous relationships, because they thought they could do better than you in the “power” department, and get a respected brave instead of a disrespected one. However, you were an ideal mate for “dual mating strategy” bad actor women. For these women, the fact that your “power” stat was low did not matter since they were just* looking for a provider to work their dual strategy. Since your relationship prospects were filtered in this way, this gave you a distorted picture of what a typical woman is like.
Another possibility is that in the same way some neighborhoods are bad neighborhoods that have a lot of crime, you live in a city that has a dog-eat-dog dating culture.
Thank you for permission to turn evil. I make my own rules from now on. My revenge will be legal, general (not targeting any specific group, people or company), and anonymous.
It seems kind of pointless and counterproductive to take revenge on randoms that have not done anything to harm you...? BTW, I gave you “permission” to take revenge only on people who harmed you.
Consider a world in which nondirected revenge is normal. In such a world, revenge does not act as a deterrent to bad actions (because nondirected revenge isn’t likely to result in bad consequences for a particular bad actor) and it also results in an expanding circle of harm (because victims of nondirected revenge are liable to engage in nondirected revenge themselves—consider the possibility that the bad actors you were harmed by were themselves acting in aggression in response to some bad situation like growing up with an absent father).
For the sake of argument, if my sexual fetish was nuking densely populated cities and fucking in the heat of the fireball while listening to the screams of the dying, can you say with certainty that this is morally wrong?
Jesus christ dude. I’m a moral anti-realist but I certainly would prefer you did not do that.
I put a check mark for today on the calendar I use to track my Quirrelmort-inspired cynicism.
But even though crime happens, that doesn’t mean that everyone is a criminal.
Brains evolved to enable people to exploit dumber people.
It sounds to me like what might have happened in your case is that you focused really hard on being “good” and not so much on being “powerful”
I naively believed the best way to get a good wife was to act like a good husband.
It turns out that the best way to get a good wife is to be powerful...and the way to become powerful is to selfishly build up skills/power/experience, including sexual experience.
you live in a city that has a dog-eat-dog dating culture.
Welcome to any metropolitan city.
consider the possibility that the bad actors you were harmed by were themselves acting in aggression in response to some bad situation like growing up with an absent father
Probably. But what difference does it make? They still hurt me, violating norms of civil behavior, and were not (and cannot) be punished for it. Thus, the rational thing for me to do is to do unto others first.
Justice is a lie told by the powerful.
A person who’s maximizing total utility is not going to grant every favor asked of them.
I am a “happiness monster”. My utility deserves a 1000x multiplier.
Sure, in certain circumstances. I think I agree with Chris Hallquist at least.
A person who’s maximizing total utility is not going to grant every favor asked of them.
Women cried when they found his blog. They did not blow a raspberry in disgust. They cried because they thought they had some kind of connection with a guy who turned out to be callously manipulating them.
I agree it’s a perspective worth keeping in mind and I said so above. I’m just saying that the case the RP folks make is overstated.
Think about it this way: Crime happens. Sometimes people get mugged. And it makes sense to take steps to protect yourself from getting mugged. Maybe you’re going to learn martial arts. Maybe you’re going to avoid walking through sketchy areas at night. Maybe you’re going to pack heat. But even though crime happens, that doesn’t mean that everyone is a criminal. It’s easy for a person who had one or two really emotionally significant muggings to update on those experiences and start assuming the world is full of criminals even if that isn’t actually the case.
I don’t think it’s normal for unmarried men to stick with women who don’t have sex with them for years, so if you don’t mind I’m going to psychoanalyze you a little bit.
It sounds to me like what might have happened in your case is that you focused really hard on being “good” and not so much on being “powerful” (see my good power attraction equation from above). You were passed over by women looking for monogamous relationships, because they thought they could do better than you in the “power” department, and get a respected brave instead of a disrespected one. However, you were an ideal mate for “dual mating strategy” bad actor women. For these women, the fact that your “power” stat was low did not matter since they were just* looking for a provider to work their dual strategy. Since your relationship prospects were filtered in this way, this gave you a distorted picture of what a typical woman is like.
Another possibility is that in the same way some neighborhoods are bad neighborhoods that have a lot of crime, you live in a city that has a dog-eat-dog dating culture.
It seems kind of pointless and counterproductive to take revenge on randoms that have not done anything to harm you...? BTW, I gave you “permission” to take revenge only on people who harmed you.
Consider a world in which nondirected revenge is normal. In such a world, revenge does not act as a deterrent to bad actions (because nondirected revenge isn’t likely to result in bad consequences for a particular bad actor) and it also results in an expanding circle of harm (because victims of nondirected revenge are liable to engage in nondirected revenge themselves—consider the possibility that the bad actors you were harmed by were themselves acting in aggression in response to some bad situation like growing up with an absent father).
Jesus christ dude. I’m a moral anti-realist but I certainly would prefer you did not do that.
I put a check mark for today on the calendar I use to track my Quirrelmort-inspired cynicism.
Brains evolved to enable people to exploit dumber people.
I naively believed the best way to get a good wife was to act like a good husband.
It turns out that the best way to get a good wife is to be powerful...and the way to become powerful is to selfishly build up skills/power/experience, including sexual experience.
Welcome to any metropolitan city.
Probably. But what difference does it make? They still hurt me, violating norms of civil behavior, and were not (and cannot) be punished for it. Thus, the rational thing for me to do is to do unto others first.
Justice is a lie told by the powerful.
I am a “happiness monster”. My utility deserves a 1000x multiplier.