i prefer the bojack horseman truism: "the troops are jerks. most people are assholes already. i don't think handing an asshole a gun and telling him it's ok to kill people makes him any less of an asshole"
We're assholes because the material conditions we live in encourage assholes. Being better than this takes actual effort and actual praxis, but it isn't an inevitability.
sure, i just think the point is that handing an asshole in bad material conditions a gun in exchange for an essentially fully alternative socioeconomic model is like, probably a bad direction for a person to go vis a vis not being an asshole.
i prefer the bojack horseman truism: "the troops are jerks. most people are assholes already. i don't think handing an asshole a gun and telling him it's ok to kill people makes him any less of an asshole"
We're assholes because the material conditions we live in encourage assholes. Being better than this takes actual effort and actual praxis, but it isn't an inevitability.
sure, i just think the point is that handing an asshole in bad material conditions a gun in exchange for an essentially fully alternative socioeconomic model is like, probably a bad direction for a person to go vis a vis not being an asshole.