Well yes, when things are sabotaged deliberately they often do fail to work. That is one of the reasons why people become so antisemitic when you can find "Jewish born immigrant" on the early life of every doctor or activist that started a trend that brought us here.
Conservativism has a lot of faults that make it easy to exploit and damage, often by appealing to our baser natures and natural hedonism. Its a goal to strive towards, but rarely going to be an actual accomplishment in a globalized world where it can be bombarded from every angle constantly.
Well yes, when things are sabotaged deliberately they often do fail to work
And you think that when virtue is the norm, vice is not "sabotaged" as you call it? Surely, in previous times people would have wanted to "sabotage" arrangements, they just were not successful.
But given the fact that it doesn't work, your solution is... to ignore the fact that it doesn't work?
That is one of the reasons why people become so antisemitic when you can find "Jewish born immigrant" on the early life of every doctor or activist that started a trend that brought us here.
Yeah, because you're not looking it up and remembering it for the cases where this was not the case.
Surely, in previous times people would have wanted to "sabotage" arrangements, they just were not successful.
Well yes, but the technology advancements that gave us globalization and instant communication made them more capable and able to overwhelm what was a formerly defendable position and belief system.
But given the fact that it doesn't work, your solution is... to ignore the fact that it doesn't work?
Its a goal to strive towards, but rarely going to be an actual accomplishment
Aiming for the sky is a necessary part of keeping people on the optimal path while still accepting human flaws. Few people are going to remain virgins until marriage, but we should still speak out against sluttery. Most people drink, but we should still speak about the damage of alcohol and make some efforts to control it.
We will never reach utopia, under any belief system's version of it. But if we even put in the effort to try, we can still make incredible strides in improving both our own life and the community around us.
Aiming for the sky is a necessary part of keeping people on the optimal path while still accepting human flaws. Few people are going to remain virgins until marriage, but we should still speak out against sluttery. Most people drink, but we should still speak about the damage of alcohol and make some efforts to control it.
The difference being that people not being drunks does not create a dearth of role models for people in the real world.
Should we simply stop trying to advise people against drinking too much because Prohibition failed? Plenty of us have lost important role models to the drink, and the white trash and ghetto areas I hail from have lost entire communities to it.
The real world is filled with goals you should aim for even if you, and those around you, can never hope to achieve them fully. The process makes one better, and demanding perfection is always the greatest enemy of good.
Well yes, when things are sabotaged deliberately they often do fail to work. That is one of the reasons why people become so antisemitic when you can find "Jewish born immigrant" on the early life of every doctor or activist that started a trend that brought us here.
Conservativism has a lot of faults that make it easy to exploit and damage, often by appealing to our baser natures and natural hedonism. Its a goal to strive towards, but rarely going to be an actual accomplishment in a globalized world where it can be bombarded from every angle constantly.
And you think that when virtue is the norm, vice is not "sabotaged" as you call it? Surely, in previous times people would have wanted to "sabotage" arrangements, they just were not successful.
But given the fact that it doesn't work, your solution is... to ignore the fact that it doesn't work?
Yeah, because you're not looking it up and remembering it for the cases where this was not the case.
Well yes, but the technology advancements that gave us globalization and instant communication made them more capable and able to overwhelm what was a formerly defendable position and belief system.
Aiming for the sky is a necessary part of keeping people on the optimal path while still accepting human flaws. Few people are going to remain virgins until marriage, but we should still speak out against sluttery. Most people drink, but we should still speak about the damage of alcohol and make some efforts to control it.
We will never reach utopia, under any belief system's version of it. But if we even put in the effort to try, we can still make incredible strides in improving both our own life and the community around us.
The difference being that people not being drunks does not create a dearth of role models for people in the real world.
Should we simply stop trying to advise people against drinking too much because Prohibition failed? Plenty of us have lost important role models to the drink, and the white trash and ghetto areas I hail from have lost entire communities to it.
The real world is filled with goals you should aim for even if you, and those around you, can never hope to achieve them fully. The process makes one better, and demanding perfection is always the greatest enemy of good.