profesor satyr wrote:Why hate transsexuals....why fight your enemies, when you have become aware that none of them can do otherwise. They, like you, have no choice but to behave in the way the universal one determined?
Why feel so much passion against them, when they have no choice?
Do you hat a flu virus for being what it is?
Do you hate a storm for being what it is?
Believing what you do, this is madness.
not, it's not madness... it just involves a radically different way of understanding the moral sphere once it's realized there is no freewill.
might be a good idea to use nietzsche here as a template. he describes 'revenge' as consisting of two types. the first type is reflexive and in the name of self-preservation; we strike out absentmindedly at an object to prevent it from further harming us. the second type is reflective in that it isn't simply reactionary and reflexive. we deliberate this second type, and it involves something more than self-preservation. it involves a 'restoration' as well... the restoration of 'honor' or the knowledge that one too can be dangerous in return. it says 'i don't fear you'. it demonstrates the reciprocity of power.
now in the case of there being no freewill, and therefore no more praise or blame, the second type must become an instance of a more complex first type. without responsibility, people become objects which either threaten or compliment our well-being in the same way a lawn mower might run over our foot, which we then kick (with our good foot) and curse aloud.
striking out against them, here, does not require that one believe they have freewill. whether responsible or not, if you threaten me, i'm comin' for ya... and this has nothing to do with the moral concept of 'honor'. i am absolutely unconcerned with whether or not i'm respected or feared, so my revenge is not restorative but reflexive. i can't 'restore' what doesn't exist in the first place; notions such as 'honor' and 'respect' depend on there being freewill, because they are measures of praise which decrease proportionate to blame and vice-versa.
so my attack is not for imposing guilt or responsibility upon you, and does not rest on the presupposition, does not require, that you can be or have either. like an inanimate object that has become an obstacle, i strike out at you as a reflex to remove you. this reflex is not for the purposes of punishing, but of self-preservation only.
this is what i mean when i say the whole 'sphere' of morality is changed because there is no freewill. the conditions of our motivations for revenge become something else as a result.
this should help you in your transition into nihilistic-sociopathology.... a conclusion to a higher order of reasoning, and not for everyone. you should feel privileged, sir.