“Being trained to do what’s right, how can that not be fair, how can that not be just?”
The just world fallacy is so deeply embedded in the American psyche that people will justify their own slavery
Just like when people say "oh communism can't work because humans are inherently greedy and corrupt" as if that isn't just the fucking concept of original sin completely obliterating any hope of rational thought
How can that not be just??? The fuck. It's not even really supposed to be about justice. Everyone jerks off to this ideal of justice when what they really want is justification for their moral outrage, they want revenge, they want punishment, what they don't actually give a fuck about is ameliorating the situation. If someone steals because they're fuckin broke, what would actually make the world a better place, what would actually produce the most net good, is making sure that person who stole can get to a place on some level where they don't feel the need to steal. Fucking throwing them in a cage does nothing for nobody except the fucking monsters who own prisons.
The real problem with oh no humans are selfish is that the aims socialism and communism is to better meet the reasonable selfish desires of the working class at the expense of the unreasonable selfish desires of the bourgeoise.
For example "I want to eat today" is a selfish desire
Yeah, I mean, I talk a good edgelord about Central Parking the rich in Minecraft. But what I really want is the rich to stop being rich, oppressors to stop being oppressors, settler chuds to stop being settlers. That's all. All they have to do is stop.
They don't even have to help fix things, and I'll leave them alone to live normal, obscure, ordinary lives.
They won't, of course. And so the Gulags and Guillotines start rolling out. But it's not a good thing, just the consequence of a long chain of material conditions and collective choices.
It's not about some moral revenge. It's about simply removing the barriers to a better world.
The just world fallacy is so deeply embedded in the American psyche that people will justify their own slavery
Just like when people say "oh communism can't work because humans are inherently greedy and corrupt" as if that isn't just the fucking concept of original sin completely obliterating any hope of rational thought
How can that not be just??? The fuck. It's not even really supposed to be about justice. Everyone jerks off to this ideal of justice when what they really want is justification for their moral outrage, they want revenge, they want punishment, what they don't actually give a fuck about is ameliorating the situation. If someone steals because they're fuckin broke, what would actually make the world a better place, what would actually produce the most net good, is making sure that person who stole can get to a place on some level where they don't feel the need to steal. Fucking throwing them in a cage does nothing for nobody except the fucking monsters who own prisons.
The real problem with oh no humans are selfish is that the aims socialism and communism is to better meet the reasonable selfish desires of the working class at the expense of the unreasonable selfish desires of the bourgeoise.
For example "I want to eat today" is a selfish desire
Yeah, I mean, I talk a good edgelord about Central Parking the rich in Minecraft. But what I really want is the rich to stop being rich, oppressors to stop being oppressors, settler chuds to stop being settlers. That's all. All they have to do is stop.
They don't even have to help fix things, and I'll leave them alone to live normal, obscure, ordinary lives.
They won't, of course. And so the Gulags and Guillotines start rolling out. But it's not a good thing, just the consequence of a long chain of material conditions and collective choices.
It's not about some moral revenge. It's about simply removing the barriers to a better world.