12-16-2012, 03:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2012, 03:22 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Quote:People are the root of all evil, and they disgust me.
This is philosophical Christian folklore, grounded on the idealistic premise that people are inherently sinful creatures and therefore prone to do evil things (and what is evil anyway? This is a somewhat emotive and subjective term to use in any discussion about the nature of our social being). It has no relevance or any use to explaining the rationality behind human actions. Not to mention, it paints our species with a rather broad brush. The children killed in this tragedy were people - are they the root of all "evil" in your opinion, and do they disgust you?
People's nature and behavior are very much largely determined by their social and cultural environment, and by current economic and political conditions or other material factors. Some people disgust me, but more than anything, the capitalistic system and its religious like overtones are far more repulsive to me.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)