if you want pleasant emotions to determine what everyone should do, then yeah empathy ends up being really important, because you are sensitive to other people's pleasant emotions. but what if I notice someone having pleasant emotions about something I don't think they should do? what if my empathy notices someone enjoying fireworks? I still hate that, I still think they shouldn't be allowed to have them.
I probably just don't agree with liberalism as a goal, so how do I not become authoritarian then
"if your prayer was worth anything we wouldn't be having this conversation"
"if your god was listening we wouldn't be in this situation"
after tragedy they say, "all we know to do at this moment is pray", so I think we should start asking "why didn't you pray to prevent this?"
if you dare to make a choice you are potentially going against god's will and that makes you responsible for the effects. negligence and ignorance don't, they are blameless
like gayness, vaccines are a choice and contagious
people were actually believing the vaccine was contagious
brains are like weather imo
Kandiss Taylor, running to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, posted:
This isn’t just ‘climate change.’ It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation. If fake weather causes real tragedy, that’s murder. Pray. Prepare. Question the narrative.Everything happens for a reason, and the reason involves somebody's will. Not the will to pollute, not the will to suppress research, not the will to bribe politicians for fossil fuel subsidies. It's more direct, there is a will directly behind every event and it is specifically for that event. This is how we know that weather catastrophes are done by someone.
I was thinking today about how being carefree is cool. it's better to look like you're not worried than to look like you're worried. it made me wonder how connected that kind of perspective is to a certain style of faith, believing that things will happen as they mean to. or that someone is looking out for us. 'trust the process', 'let fate take the wheel'. because we couldn't affect the process anyway, we just have to react to it as it happens to us.
but being carefree isn't easier, in my opinion, because a lot of the hassles that come up when you're being carefree could have been avoided if you were worrying about them. I would argue that it's less stress to worry, because then you spend effort thinking about the future, and prevent situations that cause stress.
if you think of our surroundings as chaos, as something very difficult to predict, people might say it's wasted effort to try and predict it, because it's just so hard to do. but I disagree, I think believing that there's a plan or some intention behind events makes people less inclined to try to predict things. because there's no rhyme or reason, it just happens, and we don't know the entity deciding. with chaos, it's difficult to predict but at least it follows reliable rules. even though catastrophes sometimes happen without warning, they are much more often prevented, with worrying about them.
you can worry about a bridge collapsing and then figure out why they do, and then build them in a way so they won't. it works consistently, you can predict the future very well, and even account for some situations that are unknown but within certain parameters. being carefree about building bridges has to come with some kind of other explanation for how events happen, right? it has to argue that what we know about it right now doesn't matter, and that the future will be arbitrary.
