i think guilt is a self conditioned response to actions we see as immoral. maybe thats why our morals and values have changed so vastly over the years... i wonder one day if murder will ever be right. with abortions and death penalties being the rage, it's quite a slippery slope ain't it? lolz then again it's a slippery slope after all...
but yea i think guilt is self-conditioned. nurturing guilt leads to the virtuous life, while banishing guilt leads to uh lolz... dorian gray? but yea that's how it starts right? banish guilt. for one action at a time. the more it's done, the easier it becomes. so maybe a slippery slope into moral nihilism is justified after all.
in the dragonlance world (or in all weis and hickman's series actually), there is a conflict between good and evil... and the aim is not for good to win, but for a balance to be struck. a very yin-yang kindof idealogy. too much of "goodness" breeds intolerance, arrogance and stagnation while too much of "badness" leads to chaos and unrest. so too much "bad" is bad, too much "good" is also bad. lolz but that's just oxymoronic. and suddenly... we realize that the crystals that were "good" and "bad" are actually flawed gems and clouded stones. no la then again maybe i'm just taking a myopic view of good and evil.
i think i put this across from tinted glasses... cos there's a fear of seeing things all too clearly. think i gotta put up defenses before i'm ready to put on a clear set of glasses. even now, it's quite scary cos it feels rather clear already. i feel like i'm intentionally tinting it sometimes.
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i think guilt is a self conditioned response to actions we see as immoral. maybe thats why our morals and values have changed so vastly over the years... i wonder one day if murder will ever be right. with abortions and death penalties being the rage, it's quite a slippery slope ain't it? lolz then again it's a slippery slope after all...
but yea i think guilt is self-conditioned. nurturing guilt leads to the virtuous life, while banishing guilt leads to uh lolz... dorian gray? but yea that's how it starts right? banish guilt. for one action at a time. the more it's done, the easier it becomes. so maybe a slippery slope into moral nihilism is justified after all.
in the dragonlance world (or in all weis and hickman's series actually), there is a conflict between good and evil... and the aim is not for good to win, but for a balance to be struck. a very yin-yang kindof idealogy. too much of "goodness" breeds intolerance, arrogance and stagnation while too much of "badness" leads to chaos and unrest. so too much "bad" is bad, too much "good" is also bad. lolz but that's just oxymoronic. and suddenly... we realize that the crystals that were "good" and "bad" are actually flawed gems and clouded stones. no la then again maybe i'm just taking a myopic view of good and evil.
i think i put this across from tinted glasses... cos there's a fear of seeing things all too clearly. think i gotta put up defenses before i'm ready to put on a clear set of glasses. even now, it's quite scary cos it feels rather clear already. i feel like i'm intentionally tinting it sometimes.