Mastodawn

I'm beginning to suspect that some core deontological programming is starting to cause significant bugs in ethical reasoning across the entire system.

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Taggart 3d ago

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

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Ooze 𓁟

@mttaggart It is for very good reason that eternal vigilance is so often cited as of paramount importance in the maintenance of moral ideals. Your last sentence exemplifies the difficulties of the present age i.e. we have been pushed to our limits by the demands of capital. Now, in this harried state, we find it hard to summon up the energies to defend the moral positions which will prevent us from being sucked further into the maw of the machine. This is one of the goals of the machine and we owe it to ourselves to strive against it.