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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:27:49 +0100
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On 22/10/2024 07:30, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:14:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 21 Oct 2024 23:17:12 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:58:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:53:35 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Once the Left introduced morality into politics it left the door open
>>>>> for every kind of hatred and bigotry.
>>>>
>>>> I thought it was the Right, not the Left, that wanted to turn abortion
>>>> rights from a health issue into a religious issue.
>>>
>>> The left are just as religious in a secular sort of way.
>>
>> Is that supposed to be saying something good about religion, or
>> something bad?
> 
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion
> 
> 1, if you leave aside the supernatural and 3 are fitting. Hoffer's 'The
> True Believer' is dated but still valid.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
> 
> You might want to examine one of your beliefs, equality. Unless you
> abstract it to the point of meaninglessness it is no different than a
> belief in a diety, an afterlife, salvation, or any other fervently held
> beliefs.
> 
> 
Deity.



>> Or indeed, males who cannot have babies at all, also supporting such a
>> thing. You find it odd that human beings might want to support each
>> other in a common fight?
>>
>> I never thought of compassion as a “left-wing” thing, but so be it ...
> 
> 
> I've been rereading Nietzsche. You should try some. How do you equate
> brutal, short lives without a coercive government with compassion as a
> universal virtue?

In the end Nietzsche was just another nutter,.  A comedian poking fun 
which some people took seriously.

Where morality is concerned, we are products of ancestors whose 
behaviour *for whatever reason* enabled us to be born and survive long 
enough to be here.

Nietzsche observed that life's losers didn't reproduce. Hitler made it 
policy.

-- 
“Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee,”

  – Ludwig von Mises