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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us … we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see … Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are – hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones

-Thomas Ligotti 

“I’ve seen horrors. Horrors that you have seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer, you have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and mortal terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.”

 -Colonel Walter E Kurtz, Apocalypse Now (1979)

The basis of societies are lain with unspoken rules. The primary one resolving tension the most is do unto others as you would have done unto you.  I.e. the golden rule I.e. the categorical imperative.

Morality is malleable but the rules of Ethics are not as they are the backbone of society itself, superimposing the function of life orientied towards coexistence.

Is the reduction of suffering more important than the maximization of pleasure? Is it justified to subject racing horses to extreme stress and torment for the pleasure of the gamblers betting on the race?

you’re all in hell i regret helping

Lil_Zero-Sum said: 

 Fascinating.