hello there… i think about this sort of thing a lot of the time… youve written it well.
I feel that we as a species do have a large amount of control as to the way we perceive events – i feel we can condition ourselves into reacting to certain things… i do it myself, i can just let things pass by and others will put me on high alert… as part of a modern society much of this conditioning will come ‘ naturally ‘ through day to day life but i think if you put your mind to it you can… change your mind, though this control is not without limits i feel, we cant completely change who we are – there will always be undertones.
having said that, i feel that humans, and our minds, are far too unimportant and miniscule that its not something that should have time wasted upon – we are not here to change the world, to save everything – we dont control the universe. nothing controls nothing i feel. we just have a strong sense of emotion(as a species generally), and so thoughts of responsibility are actually considered by us.
we are just as insignificant as any other species on the planet – we just feel more emotion and think more. we serve no helpful purpose, we are parasites…
though i feel through society we have, whether through manipulation or evolution, grown to feel as if we have responsibility. if you look at society as an entity, one of the attributes that we, as mankind, have created, is that looking at children is wrong. whilst i in no way advocate this, can you see what i mean?
if you take remove from the onion the layer of society, and subsequently responsibility – paedos are just as insignificant as everything else.
perhaps in another society in another universe, eating vegetables is not tolerated by society, perhaps the equivalent of murder.
i find it difficult to explain, but can you see where i am coming from? im saying that, if you take away the aspects of emotion etcetera, you look at society, you just see these rules and regulations – they dont seem to have any meaning behind them, its sort of picking on a very small bunch to glue the rest of society together. and it appears to do this successfully. murder… its just one of billions ceasing to exist. stealing – an organism utilised a resource.
Now lets bring back the element of emotion and reassess this. you become the subject of society. every moment you have lived, solitary or integrated, has been impressioned by society and all of its rules. it is almost disgusting that an aged adult may attempt any contact with a child if not immediately acquainted. if a man is to kill another, he is to be harshly punished.
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Once again, very hard to write about, im just trying to look at this from a viewpoint without emotion or society – wheres everything becomes nothing.
i feel the one fatal flaw of society is that it is too impossible a task for all humanity to decide together at the same time, with no individual gaining an advantage or disadvantage over any other.
and if one does have advantage or power over another, the way the human species has (indirectly or directly) chosen to function, human emotion comes into the equation – why is he allowed to decide, why does he deserve this?
impossible questions with no immediate answer other than to get mashed / high / jolly / whatever-floats-ya-boat, and bang out the reggae on a fucking huge rig in a nice sunny field.
