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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago

This is why I don't support pot legalization, being a pot dealer used to be that accessible option.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Wait till you realize morality is shitty fucked up crutch that doesn't work at best and a tool to control people at... usual, not even the worst

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes but so what?

Humans benefit from society. You can't have society if people go around destroying that society. You make rules and enforce them to stop that destruction. Thats morality in a nutshell.

This has been going on so long that it's hard wired into most of us. For the psychopaths that don't have that hardwire, we have places to put them. I.e. prisons and boardrooms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Oh, so many things I can say in response. I will try to make it brief, though

Yes but so what?

So, for example, tons of people think themselves into depression and suicide because of some bullshit morals they have come to value more than anything else. I would rather have merciless killers to deal with, but not this kind of suffering going on around

You can’t have society if people go around destroying that society

Oh, but we do. Show me a country with empty prisons (preferably without prison-as-punishment laws even)

Edit: as an example of society without morals, if I remember correctly Gautama has spent some time with his disciples just hanging around. For those who do not know, buddhism does not care about morals in the common sense, and yet whenever you get a master+disciples group, that is a certain kind of society, very much capable to function

You make rules and enforce them to stop that destruction. Thats morality in a nutshell.

Which is plain declaring "I have failed". Failed in building a sustainable society. Failed in producing people capable of living in a sensible way. Failed to even restrict those who I failed to mold into something not that kind of destructive. I write "I" here, because in the end, if we look back in time, for every damn "moral code rule" that got spread, taught and enforced we will track that one idiot who enabled all this bullshit

This has been going on so long that it’s hard wired into most of us.

True. And because it got wired that deep we have enormous amount of suffering, because life cares not about "right" or "wrong"

For the psychopaths that don’t have that hardwire, we have places to put them. I.e. prisons and boardrooms.

Surprise: it is possible to live without any moral conditioning and still not fall into destructive behaviour. And also, we continue to revere people who have done things far from "morally right way". (Jesus, Krishna, Gautama to name a few most recognizable names). Today every single one of them would have ended up in a prison or mental hospital, which also speaks something about what morality actually is

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this an anarchist perspective? Just trying to see what your broader view might be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

No, I don't expect there to be any ready label for this. In a nutshell:

  • humans are as much part of life on this planet as everything else. the "killing is wrong" kind of maxims is just plain bullshit, just go watch how other forms of life take care of their sustenance
  • moral dilemmas show by their existence that pretty much any widespread "morally right" way to behave has its limits, yet those limits are somehow "omitted" from most sources that are supposed to teach people what is good and what is bad

also, "good" and "bad" do not actually exist: you can vaporise whole Earth and rest of the universe won't even notice

  • still there is a vivid difference between a kind soul attending to a garden a feeding stray cats and dogs who happen to come by and an idiot torturing kittens in front of their mother just for fun, even seeing these situations produces very different experiences. Substitute humans here with animals and appropriate behaviour, the difference will still stand. So there is some kind of "this is in line with how all life longs to be", "that is not how mature and balanced living creatures operate", but I have no clue even what level to look at to find that difference
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still in support. Reality is an illusion. Tuesdays, doubly so. A comet could wipe us all, and nothing will have essentially changed. Morals are power structures. Meaning is where you find it, because you are what brings meaning. This perspective doesn't need a label. It's what ... is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thank you :) And maybe it is not. If reality is an illusion and I am only dreaming, why can't I dream myself immortal and stop getting so sleepy in the evenings already. But yeah, a comet could wipe us all and meaning only exists in the mind of observer, this is a hill I can joyfully die on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I appreciate you giving me your candid opinion. I find some of it fascinating, from the perspective that you're not just subscribing to some brand of nihilism or whatever.

I do agree with some of it, from a lay persons perspective. I'm no philosopher and I'm certain someone might be much more qualified to tell you all about the origins of your belief. Like you talk about some simple coping strategies like, "good and bad being inconsequential when compared to an infinitely large universe." These are just copes we develop to reconcile the brutal nature of the world.

Getting back to morality, i think, the more we are separated from the "bad thing" that happened the harder it is to apply a moral framework around it and even if you did, trying to teach that framework on a scale that will reach everyone is mostly impossible.

So end of the day we are still just picking battles, which is usually just harm reduction.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Don't use being poor to justify your shitty choices bro, wtf? Trash take.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You just assume I'm poor. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Simple. Trashy. But simple.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

According to Lemmy all poor people are good.

Tell that to Juan, the homeless I personally know that has not done anything bad, and have been always an angel. He had never hurt or steal anyone and he doesn't even have a roof over his head.

But according to Lemmy shitheads that kill, steal and rape have the same moral merit as Juan because they are not rich.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but this is fucking stupid. WHO is calling WHAT immoral? Someone babbling on recycling, who the fuck cares about recycling?

Poorest people are 100% capable of making choices that align with their personal values as anyone else. This is such a fucking Christian thread. What, do you think morals come from the Bible? what a joke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

There ya go. Yes, 'threading a moral needle with bad choices' is all just pure imagery. Nothing real was said. There's no actual situation under discussion, just vapor.

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