From where do you derive your religious zeal in wanting to eradicate insanity/irrationality like vermin? Personally I find them to be enjoyable states of mind, and I also enjoy the company of many other irrational people. Perhaps you also need a word for people like myself, who are “postsane,” in that we’re quite capable of being rational when we need to be, but having been there, done the math, proved Godel’s theorems and found rationalism rather dull, we grew bored and moved on.
I’m quite certain that I would find a world without irrationality to be an inhuman hell, and so would you. I would much prefer to eradicate evangelical, totalitarian mentalities such as the one you expressed like vermin than eliminate all those amusing, creative madmen who so enrich my life. Quite honestly, I think the appropriate response to your eradication agenda is this: go fuck yourself!
I’ve read a comic book where the “mastermind” of the story did exactly that. This was in an alternative universe where World War II lasted longer than in our world. The mastermind became chief of the third Reich (Hitler was dead at that point, I don’t remember how), devised a plan to take out all the industrial world with a biological weapon. He also chose a select few to be sheltered in bunkers while the world healed itself, as seeds to a better world.
The thing is, he despised the Nazis. Yet not only he took their methods, he amplified them: he judged the current world rotten, and set out to cleanse it. The twist is, he ensured he himself died in the process, because even as he saw no third alternative, the sin was too to great to go unpunished.
I must say that I like this reasoning, because it gets rid of a great deal of rationalizations typically made by those in power. If your cause is worth killing millions of people, but you’re not among them, then your reasoning is most certainly flawed.
From where do you derive your religious zeal in wanting to eradicate insanity/irrationality like vermin? Personally I find them to be enjoyable states of mind, and I also enjoy the company of many other irrational people. Perhaps you also need a word for people like myself, who are “postsane,” in that we’re quite capable of being rational when we need to be, but having been there, done the math, proved Godel’s theorems and found rationalism rather dull, we grew bored and moved on.
I’m quite certain that I would find a world without irrationality to be an inhuman hell, and so would you. I would much prefer to eradicate evangelical, totalitarian mentalities such as the one you expressed like vermin than eliminate all those amusing, creative madmen who so enrich my life. Quite honestly, I think the appropriate response to your eradication agenda is this: go fuck yourself!
You wouldn’t happen to be related to SithMasterSean, would you?
Also, the end result of eradicating all those with totalitarian eradication agendas is eradicating yourself.
I’ve read a comic book where the “mastermind” of the story did exactly that. This was in an alternative universe where World War II lasted longer than in our world. The mastermind became chief of the third Reich (Hitler was dead at that point, I don’t remember how), devised a plan to take out all the industrial world with a biological weapon. He also chose a select few to be sheltered in bunkers while the world healed itself, as seeds to a better world.
The thing is, he despised the Nazis. Yet not only he took their methods, he amplified them: he judged the current world rotten, and set out to cleanse it. The twist is, he ensured he himself died in the process, because even as he saw no third alternative, the sin was too to great to go unpunished.
I must say that I like this reasoning, because it gets rid of a great deal of rationalizations typically made by those in power. If your cause is worth killing millions of people, but you’re not among them, then your reasoning is most certainly flawed.