Good is Evil

The true history of the tragedy called "morality."

From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world: http://www.freedomainradio.com

This is the true history of what is commonly called "morality."

If you were the only thief in the world, imagine how easy your job would be! There would be no locks, no security systems, no passwords, no police. You could just take stuff, and people would probably just assume they lost it.

On the other hand, if everyone in the world was a thief, everyone would half starve. No one would create more than they consumed in the moment, because it would just be stolen.

So -- if you want to be a great thief -- the greatest, perhaps -- your best strategy would be to convince everyone else to stop stealing -- not because you think theft is wrong -- you are, after all, a thief -- but because you don't want the competition!

Thus the most brilliant thieves invent "property rights" to make theft easier and more profitable.

If everyone is a counterfeiter, money is worthless. If you want to be a great counterfeiter -- the greatest, perhaps -- your first step is to convince everyone else that counterfeiting is immoral, wrong, evil, and must be punished.

Then, you must convince everyone that your own counterfeiting is moral, good, virtuous, and must be rewarded.

This is what George Orwell called, "doublethink."

In order for us to accept such madness, the wheels of our minds must first be broken by indoctrination. By government schools.

Ethics, virtue, morality -- these were not invented and inflicted from any desire to spread goodness, but rather to disarm and enslave others. To disarm and enslave you.

The sequence is always the same -- invent a universal standard of good behavior, and then create an invisible exception for yourself and your friends, by calling it something else.

"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL!" -- Ok, all right, theft is wrong! Thus those in power have to call their theft "taxation."

"THOU SHALT NOT KILL!" -- Ok, all right, murder is wrong! Thus those in power have to call their murders "wars."

"NO KIDNAPPING!" -- Ok, all right, kidnapping is wrong! Thus those in power have to call their kidnappings "incarceration."

"VIOLENCE IS WRONG!" -- Ok, all right, using violence to get what you want is wrong! Thus those in power have to call their violence "spanking" or "laws."

Do you see the pattern? Create a universal moral rule, and then create an exception for yourself, and your friends.

It's very easy to test this theory. Walk-up to an average citizen and ask him if using violence to solve problems is good. He will say, "no." Point out that the State initiates force all the time in the pretense of solving problems. He will immediately start to defend the State.

It is inevitable. People defend moral rules, and then defend the most blatant violations of these same moral rules.

This how we are controlled. This is how we are propagandized. This is how money dies. This is how freedom dies.

This is how we die.

If someone gives you a moral rule, the first thing to do is to examine not the rule, but the exception. Who is not bound by that rule? Who gets to do the exact opposite? It will always be those in power -- that is why moral rules exist.

Any thinker who actually tries to apply universal moral rules universally is considered insane, bizarre, ridiculous -- because the purpose of universal morality is the exception, the violation.

Governments disarm citizens by denying them weapons, while retaining monstrous weapons in the hands of the state.

It is the same with "morality."

Open your mind. Open your eyes.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

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[FunnyRumel2]

We as humans are social mammals, hence we cannot have no hierarchy. It's our basic nature. So either we accept, that there are people who are higher in hierarchy than us and thus have more power or potential, or we rebel against the current hierarchy and ironicly try to build a new one with other people on the top. There is no cure.

[electromata]

at a big level i can agree, but I hope that even in your ideological world people can have their own house an a little bit of land maybe, other way ... it,s weird ... idk how to explain it but this libertarian scare me a bit like it can became a kind of fascism to easy thing is even if is a mater of fact that the rulers are fucking corrupt they are people like us, so what it have to say about us

[stevenfaec]

Cool story bro, tell it again.

[ShadowCrowX]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[stevenfaec]

My goodness, it is not my job to be your dictionary. They both go hand in hand. Perhaps you could be using both. What a twist!

[DrTruthiness]

If the purpose of universal morality is the exception, is it worth even defending universal morality? Even this question seems like a false choice where the only option is moral relativism.

If anyone has any insight on that, I'd love to hear it. This one kind of turns my mind into a pretzel.

[ShadowCrowX]

Devilish tactics, childish tactics. Make up your damn mind and define both of them.

[stevenfaec]

I'm not the one using devilish tactics that attempt to overthrow a professional argument. You are simply using childish tactics such as a scarecrow logical fallacy to detain my argument. That is being a troll and is completely irrational.

[ShadowCrowX]

oh my---wow...just stop trying. You're the troll for continuing to be completely irrational by trying to justify mass murder

[stevenfaec]

God said it was okay because the Israelites were in danger, do you not understand? I already explaioned why previously, and you are obviously trolling by rehashing the same old stale argument. The Israelites had a direct "note" from God, as I similarly said before.