Sadly, it is the cowards who invent nightmares and conjure them into reality, and who also have little hesitation toward cruelty and violence when they lash out at those they project their inner demons onto.
Thus, all that is necesarry for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing.
History clearly shows that no rights simply exist; no status quo can simply be assumed, no priveleges or standards cannot be corroded… they must always be actively fought for, deliberated over, studied in detail.
Apathy, complancency, incuriousness… that is the first step toward regress, toward barbarism.
The better future is a concept that must continuously be actively struggled for… it is not a definable state of permanent victory, no, it is a constant fury against injustice that must be wielded with control and discipline… but never extinguished.
Sadly, it is the cowards who invent nightmares and conjure them into reality, and who also have little hesitation toward cruelty and violence when they lash out at those they project their inner demons onto.
You say that in response to a comment from a person considering themselves courageous and asking to the death of most people on the world…
You say that in response to a comment … asking to the death of most people on the world…
So firstly, that isn’t a sentence.
You cannot ‘asking to the death’ of anyone.
Assuming you meant to say ‘for’ instead of ‘to’…
Well then what you are saying is just factually wrong.
You’ve read ‘people who elect facsists to office are accomplices’ as ‘people who elect fascists to office should all be killed’.
Uh, nope, nobody said that, that’s a completely different concept, a whole different sentence.
Going extinct is not the same thing as a genocide or massacre or murder.
Neanderthals are extinct, trilobytes are extinct, velociraptors are extinct.
Extinction can happen as the result of direct, proximate, single cause, but it generally occurs simply because that kind of creature is weeded out of the biosphere by natural selection over time.
Hoping that cowards go extinct is no more radical or direct than saying that you hope for bravery and courage to prevail, unless you think that ‘coward’ is some kind of clearly distinct genotype of humans, which it obviously is not.
Cowardice, bravery, these are concepts applied to describe the actions of a thinking being, how they respond to their surroundings, their context… they are a spectrum of mindstates and subsequent actions that are inherent to the human condition.
The only way to eliminate cowardice is to educate people, equip them with the tools to think critically, trust nothing blindly, don’t fall for bullshit or a false sense of security, teach them that it requires courage to keep a safe and prosperous world as such.
Simplifying your understanding down to ‘kill all cowards’… is how an incurious coward would read this.
You are doing the thing, you are inventing nightmares to be afraid of.
You also misread the comment I replied to in that you think they are saying they themselves are courageous.
They did not say this, at all.
They said that it is the brave who change the world.
They did not attempt to define bravery or courage… I did.
I do not know that person or what they truly believe, but I will tell you that it does require bravery to stand up against the perceived slander of another person you do not even know, simply out of principle.
Sadly, it is the cowards who invent nightmares and conjure them into reality, and who also have little hesitation toward cruelty and violence when they lash out at those they project their inner demons onto.
Thus, all that is necesarry for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing.
History clearly shows that no rights simply exist; no status quo can simply be assumed, no priveleges or standards cannot be corroded… they must always be actively fought for, deliberated over, studied in detail.
Apathy, complancency, incuriousness… that is the first step toward regress, toward barbarism.
The better future is a concept that must continuously be actively struggled for… it is not a definable state of permanent victory, no, it is a constant fury against injustice that must be wielded with control and discipline… but never extinguished.
You say that in response to a comment from a person considering themselves courageous and asking to the death of most people on the world…
So firstly, that isn’t a sentence.
You cannot ‘asking to the death’ of anyone.
Assuming you meant to say ‘for’ instead of ‘to’…
Well then what you are saying is just factually wrong.
You’ve read ‘people who elect facsists to office are accomplices’ as ‘people who elect fascists to office should all be killed’.
Uh, nope, nobody said that, that’s a completely different concept, a whole different sentence.
Going extinct is not the same thing as a genocide or massacre or murder.
Neanderthals are extinct, trilobytes are extinct, velociraptors are extinct.
Extinction can happen as the result of direct, proximate, single cause, but it generally occurs simply because that kind of creature is weeded out of the biosphere by natural selection over time.
Hoping that cowards go extinct is no more radical or direct than saying that you hope for bravery and courage to prevail, unless you think that ‘coward’ is some kind of clearly distinct genotype of humans, which it obviously is not.
Cowardice, bravery, these are concepts applied to describe the actions of a thinking being, how they respond to their surroundings, their context… they are a spectrum of mindstates and subsequent actions that are inherent to the human condition.
The only way to eliminate cowardice is to educate people, equip them with the tools to think critically, trust nothing blindly, don’t fall for bullshit or a false sense of security, teach them that it requires courage to keep a safe and prosperous world as such.
Simplifying your understanding down to ‘kill all cowards’… is how an incurious coward would read this.
You are doing the thing, you are inventing nightmares to be afraid of.
You also misread the comment I replied to in that you think they are saying they themselves are courageous.
They did not say this, at all.
They said that it is the brave who change the world.
They did not attempt to define bravery or courage… I did.
I do not know that person or what they truly believe, but I will tell you that it does require bravery to stand up against the perceived slander of another person you do not even know, simply out of principle.