Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: Context matters for the purpose of judgement, but doing something to another person ...
Context matters for the purpose of judgement, but doing something to another person against their will has to always be defined as evil.
I don't think suicide is evil, but it surely is a product of evil. A person has a right to do it if its their wish - but here's the rub : would they wish it if society didn't tell them to do it? Society is definitely telling people to commit suicide, and confused people push for doctors to assist in it. That's definitely evil. The suicide itself is not, but has to be understood within the context of evil's pushing.
The pro choice people are mostly evil. Yes, I'm reducing a complex human being into a little word - evil. They can choose to advocate for self discipline, but they instead choose to advocate for undisciplined behavior and dealing with the consequences by making women unhealthy. Maybe it's also murder, but it doesn't have to be, for it to be evil - even giving them every possible benefit of the doubt, they still are telling women to destroy their health.
Suicide and abortion have something in common - a lot in common, but one thing at the root of it. Both are causing harm after trying to reduce harm. There's a tendency for good intentions to have the opposite result. This is called enantiodromia, which my profile is currently named after. Evil is not simply destruction - its one polar end of the enantiodromic moment, meaning the momentum of effects opposite to intention.
Of course there's reasons for it, incentives. Recognizing both the incentive structure and the pattern of enantiodromia is necessary to have justice. A system of injustice creates bad incentives - a death penalty incentivizes corrupt people to remove competition by framing them, for example. Same for "legalized" suicide - it was never illegal, but forcing doctors to kill creates an incentive to kill people against their will, and build businesses around the service of killing people, and those businesses will push the narrative that suicide is okay because that gives them business. The good intention becomes devastatingly bad - so bad, that I have to seriously consider that the people originally pushing for it had evil intentions from the start.
This BTW is why democracy inevitably devolves into a death cult.
I don't think suicide is evil, but it surely is a product of evil. A person has a right to do it if its their wish - but here's the rub : would they wish it if society didn't tell them to do it? Society is definitely telling people to commit suicide, and confused people push for doctors to assist in it. That's definitely evil. The suicide itself is not, but has to be understood within the context of evil's pushing.
The pro choice people are mostly evil. Yes, I'm reducing a complex human being into a little word - evil. They can choose to advocate for self discipline, but they instead choose to advocate for undisciplined behavior and dealing with the consequences by making women unhealthy. Maybe it's also murder, but it doesn't have to be, for it to be evil - even giving them every possible benefit of the doubt, they still are telling women to destroy their health.
Suicide and abortion have something in common - a lot in common, but one thing at the root of it. Both are causing harm after trying to reduce harm. There's a tendency for good intentions to have the opposite result. This is called enantiodromia, which my profile is currently named after. Evil is not simply destruction - its one polar end of the enantiodromic moment, meaning the momentum of effects opposite to intention.
Of course there's reasons for it, incentives. Recognizing both the incentive structure and the pattern of enantiodromia is necessary to have justice. A system of injustice creates bad incentives - a death penalty incentivizes corrupt people to remove competition by framing them, for example. Same for "legalized" suicide - it was never illegal, but forcing doctors to kill creates an incentive to kill people against their will, and build businesses around the service of killing people, and those businesses will push the narrative that suicide is okay because that gives them business. The good intention becomes devastatingly bad - so bad, that I have to seriously consider that the people originally pushing for it had evil intentions from the start.
This BTW is why democracy inevitably devolves into a death cult.