Newfie wrote:Some may want to play God. I don't.
I get your indifference to human suffering.
We have words for that attitude, it lies somewhere between narcicissim and psychopathy.
Just my observation.
Joseph Stalin wrote:A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
The normal human mind has a gate function, we can identify with small groups of victims even up to a small city size group of say 20,000. Once you get beyond those numbers feeling a personal connection to the lost becomes more and more theory and less and less emotional.
Newfie wrote:Some may want to play God. I don't.
I get your indifference to human suffering.
We have words for that attitude, it lies somewhere between narcicissim and psychopathy.
Just my observation.
Cog wrote:Newfie wrote:Some may want to play God. I don't.
I get your indifference to human suffering.
We have words for that attitude, it lies somewhere between narcicissim and psychopathy.
Just my observation.
And I see zero difference between my psychopathy and those who routinely talk about power-down on this board. The end result is the death of billions, but you folks want to make it happen. I am content to let resource limits let that occur but you seem to think that "managing" the death of billions somehow makes you morally superior.
Hypocrisy abounds.
onlooker wrote:The normal human mind has a gate function, we can identify with small groups of victims even up to a small city size group of say 20,000. Once you get beyond those numbers feeling a personal connection to the lost becomes more and more theory and less and less emotional.
Which may be why we are capable and even eager to talk about all these things here
Newfie wrote:onlooker wrote:The normal human mind has a gate function, we can identify with small groups of victims even up to a small city size group of say 20,000. Once you get beyond those numbers feeling a personal connection to the lost becomes more and more theory and less and less emotional.
Which may be why we are capable and even eager to talk about all these things here
I understand this, however one should not need to have a personal connection to know its wrong to murder someone in cold blood. Likewise we do not need a personal connection to decry the path we are on.
The simple fact that the quote comes from Stalin, a psychopath if there ever was one, should be a clue that something is wrong. He could have dinner and drinks with you, joke and sing, and order your execution before you cleared the gates to his compound. Including family members.
Cog wrote:And those who advocate power-down and eliminating the use of fossil fuels are no less a murderer than Stalin. The result is exactly the same.
Think I'm exaggerating? Tell me how you feed 7.5 billion people without fossil fuel.
Cog wrote:The most compassionate thing we can do about over-population is to do nothing.
Newfie wrote:Cog wrote:And those who advocate power-down and eliminating the use of fossil fuels are no less a murderer than Stalin. The result is exactly the same.
Think I'm exaggerating? Tell me how you feed 7.5 billion people without fossil fuel.
Exactly. And how do you feed 9 billion? Which is worse, to starve 7.5 or 9 billion?
Cog wrote:The most compassionate thing we can do about over-population is to do nothing.
Cog wrote:And I see zero difference between my psychopathy and those who routinely talk about power-down on this board. The end result is the death of billions, but you folks want to make it happen.
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