Wait what? Why is everyone a hypocrite? Thats a big statement that might need some backing up.
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Thrasymachus- "What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party."
( Plato's Republic.)
Life is a game, Life is a joke. I'm a peddler of doubt.
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual a crime." -Max Stirner
Wait what? Why is everyone a hypocrite? Thats a big statement that might need some backing up.
He's projecting his own inadequacies onto others. It's not like he's got anything better to do.
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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You recall of course that Thrasymachus abandoned this position under relentless cross-examination by Socrates:
http://homepage.mac.com/jholbo/writi...rep1/rep8.html
Show me a genuinely honest human being that doesn't lie or deceive.
Show me a genuinely honest human being that always tells the truth about everything no matter what.
( You can't.)
Life is a game, Life is a joke. I'm a peddler of doubt.
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual a crime." -Max Stirner
Kinda like you projecting your own inadequancies in not being able to accept reality which is why you project those inadequancies into your optimistic happy feel good philosophy of yours in order to bring about a sort of personal security of mind where you ignore the more destructive tendencies of human beings behind your insistence of a absurd hope for change which you believe is possible through a equally absurd faith but where you also have no evidence to back up such a faith.
But hey, what do I know? It's not like I got anything better to do than to sit here and chit-chat with you. ( Laughs.)
Life is a game, Life is a joke. I'm a peddler of doubt.
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual a crime." -Max Stirner
Well of course he did because the writer of Plato's Republic was heavily biased in favor of Socrates.
However I think if such a real conversation took place it would be Thrasymachus who would be the victor of the debate not the charlatan that was Socrates.
( And what Socrates said in the debate against Thrasymachus in Plato's republic I believe was poor weak defense.)
Life is a game, Life is a joke. I'm a peddler of doubt.
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual a crime." -Max Stirner
I act immoral at times. Mostly to rebel against the moralcodes for instance what the bible shows.
(No sex before marriage, what a bullshit.)
But I think that every 'sane' person has a moral code already picked up since the toddler age. when you start learning social-skills.
If I had totally no moral code I would be leading a lonely life. Everybody would hate me. But we don't need a law for moral-codes I believe. The law doesn't have to tell me, if my neighbour is playing his hoempapa-music too loud at night that, that is immoral. Even a imbecile can figure that out.
Most people lie every now and then. Few people are actual hypocrites, which does not mean lying, it means protraying YOURSELF to be something you are not, protraying yourself to have beliefs you consiously do not have.
