go read some popular media, some tabloids for a bit and imagine inhabiting the same mind space with these people.
It’s possible that the reason I don’t find this sort of reasoning compelling is that I’m just an unusually unsavory person, but there’s nothing I find in popular media that doesn’t resonate with some part of my own psyche, or that I expect doesn’t have its analogs in my friends’ minds.
Those parts aren’t dominant, and I don’t endorse them, but they’re certainly there and I’m aware of them.
So the idea that it would be some kind of novelty to share a mind with such awful thoughts strikes me as sort of odd. I already do, I always have, I always will.
Sure, some of the awful thoughts will be novel… just as some of the brilliant, kind, and lovely thoughts will be novel… but I doubt it will be as much as a full sigma out from where I already am. I’m not some kind of unsullied snowflake whose purity ought not be besmirched.
And honestly, though I have no real way of knowing for sure, I doubt I’m all that unusual in this regard. I’m with Solzhenitsyn here: “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. ”
It’s possible that the reason I don’t find this sort of reasoning compelling is that I’m just an unusually unsavory person, but there’s nothing I find in popular media that doesn’t resonate with some part of my own psyche, or that I expect doesn’t have its analogs in my friends’ minds.
Those parts aren’t dominant, and I don’t endorse them, but they’re certainly there and I’m aware of them.
So the idea that it would be some kind of novelty to share a mind with such awful thoughts strikes me as sort of odd. I already do, I always have, I always will.
Sure, some of the awful thoughts will be novel… just as some of the brilliant, kind, and lovely thoughts will be novel… but I doubt it will be as much as a full sigma out from where I already am. I’m not some kind of unsullied snowflake whose purity ought not be besmirched.
And honestly, though I have no real way of knowing for sure, I doubt I’m all that unusual in this regard. I’m with Solzhenitsyn here: “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. ”