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[-] antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

"Good" is whoever ends up winning at the end.

[-] Valentian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Good, as in "service to others" and evil as in "service to self". Evil in this sense is unstable and ego drives Entropy by its nature by the same laws as cancer. Good is harder since decisions are also subject to entropy, requiring free will as the outside energy source. That's just my perspective <3

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The world is ignorance/greed VS knowledge/cooperation.

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[-] mrl1@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am more and more learning about how personal interests often conflict with societal interests (as simple as it may sound). We are globally going to understand soon enough that democracy isn't worth shit as long as feedback loops that allow personal interests to creep in are "meta".

Loads of people have lots of ideas on how to run countries and communities, but ideology and doctrines are not really proven concepts.

And the other big problem is that to declare new forces within existing infrastructure (creating counter power to prevent positive feedback mechanisms), societal interest must still be powerful enough to not require a revolution to be enacted in a sensible and effective way.

A lot of countries have already in my mind gone way over that threshold, it's recognisable when actual societal interests, long term initiatives and big questions about the future are not asked anymore because the political power is working at consolidating their position and redistributing favours they owe to the soon to be oligarchy.

But you can't really allow anyone to be a defeatist because cynism is the last nail in the coffin, staying awake and fight hoping that enough will join soon enough is the only way to keep existing.

[-] Tracaine@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes. There is good, there is evil and if it requires many words to try and sway your opinion, that is manipulative - evil.

An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.

[-] Valentian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

If you treat your mind like a fortress, you'll naturally consider the world your enemy

[-] Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah that tracks. Treating the world like it's your friend doesn't pan out most of the time.

[-] Valentian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I wholeheartedly disagree. Depends what you put into the term. But I definitely don't agree with the fortress analogy

[-] Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's fine. I didn't write it. It's a quote from Warhammer 40k.

[-] Valentian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Oh for that world it's the perfect quote lol

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