There is no escape from the ‘other’ side of humanity. They are our alter-ego, our own shadow.
A sovereign citizen who goes by the name Charles III ran from the journalists and refused to answer questions following his sentencing to 100 hours of community service at the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court.
A true story.
I recently ordered some injectable vitamin C, but I didn’t have any syringes. I also felt a bit uneasy about self-injecting (never done it before) so I procrastinated. Today I was driving past a drug injecting centre, and having all the ‘gear’ still in the car I realised they might give me a quick demo and some free syringes for home use. This was also a good opportunity to investigate what happens inside these injecting centres. I walked in, some guy in a blue tracksuit asked my for spare cash, about three times, but I ignored him, went straight up to a nurse and quietly explained the situation (the place felt a bit like a library, so my voice naturally assumed THAT tone). She says (in a normal voice) that they can’t help me. I say Why? (now also adjusting my voice to normal), it is only vitamin C. She tells me to go to my GP because their liability insurance does not cover “this kind of use”. The explanation sounded rather typical of the local government absurdities so I just nodded ok ok, fine, just please give me some syringes and I will somehow do it myself. The nurse again says “No, our liability insurance does not cover this kind of use… and you are holding up the customers, SIR!”. So I say, what if I had some heroin in the car and just needed some syringes. She looked at me sternly and said that I already told her what I really need those syringes for. I responded, what if I lied, because I was too embarrassed to tell you I use heroin. At this point she calls the security and I got instantly man handled by a huge Māori guy (I didnt even see him coming at me) and was not so gently forced out the front door. All the junkies looked at me as if I were some kind of criminal. A disheveled woman clutching an empty shopping trolley was shaking her head with disgust as I was limping away… What a day!
I recently ordered some injectable vitamin C, but I didn’t have any syringes. I also felt a bit uneasy about self-injecting (never done it before) so I procrastinated. Today I was driving past a drug injecting centre, and having all the ‘gear’ still in the car I realised they might give me a quick demo and some free syringes for home use. This was also a good opportunity to investigate what happens inside these injecting centres. I walked in, some guy in a blue tracksuit asked my for spare cash, about three times, but I ignored him, went straight up to a nurse and quietly explained the situation (the place felt a bit like a library, so my voice naturally assumed THAT tone). She says (in a normal voice) that they can’t help me. I say Why? (now also adjusting my voice to normal), it is only vitamin C. She tells me to go to my GP because their liability insurance does not cover “this kind of use”. The explanation sounded rather typical of the local government absurdities so I just nodded ok ok, fine, just please give me some syringes and I will somehow do it myself. The nurse again says “No, our liability insurance does not cover this kind of use… and you are holding up the customers, SIR!”. So I say, what if I had some heroin in the car and just needed some syringes. She looked at me sternly and said that I already told her what I really need those syringes for. I responded, what if I lied, because I was too embarrassed to tell you I use heroin. At this point she calls the security and I got instantly man handled by a huge Māori guy (I didnt even see him coming at me) and was not so gently forced out the front door. All the junkies looked at me as if I were some kind of criminal. A disheveled woman clutching an empty shopping trolley was shaking her head with disgust as I was limping away… What a day!
Nonsense cannot be ethical or moral. Any ‘moral code’ or ethical claim that contains a logical fallacy (contradicts itself) is nonsense, therefore wrong. The starting point for morality/ethics is consistent reasoning, not ‘the heart’, not tradition, not ideology, not obedience, not nature.
I suspect the experts agree that the majority cannot be reasoned with, cannot be morally ‘fixed’ but only ‘managed’. The events of the last few decades fit the Nietzschean dictum: “Whom you cannot teach how to fly, teach how to fall the quickest.” This won’t work either. The experts are evidently also just people who are yet to learn how to fly.
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My Email to Energy Network company regarding the introduction of a quarterly Meter Reading Fee.
I received your letter informing me that a meter reading fee will apply if a smart meter is not installed, implying that this fee covers an additional cost to your company associated with traditional meters.
In order to establish whether your financial claim reflects a genuine cost, I need additional information:
1. The actual purchase price of the additional “smart meter”.
2. The estimated installation cost of the additional “smart meter”.
3. The expected service-free lifespan of the proposed “smart meter”.
I bring to your attention that the extended scope of information that would be collected by a “smart meter” is owned by me and is subject to licensing. You have not attempted to negotiate a price for this near real-time, energy-lifestyle information to be made available to you. If you will make me an offer, I will be able to determine whether “smart meter” is the right choice for me.
I received your letter informing me that a meter reading fee will apply if a smart meter is not installed, implying that this fee covers an additional cost to your company associated with traditional meters.
In order to establish whether your financial claim reflects a genuine cost, I need additional information:
1. The actual purchase price of the additional “smart meter”.
2. The estimated installation cost of the additional “smart meter”.
3. The expected service-free lifespan of the proposed “smart meter”.
I bring to your attention that the extended scope of information that would be collected by a “smart meter” is owned by me and is subject to licensing. You have not attempted to negotiate a price for this near real-time, energy-lifestyle information to be made available to you. If you will make me an offer, I will be able to determine whether “smart meter” is the right choice for me.
Update on the manual meter reading fee (see above): The energy company has decided not to impose a charge on manual meter readings, and apologised for confusion and inconvenience caused by their previous letter.
There is a logical distinction between valuing health and valuing the necessary conditions of health - the necessary condition of value is not ‘therefore’ valuable, this is a common logical fallacy. philpapers.org/rec/KOWWII Disease is a necessary condition of the value of penicillin, but disease is not valuable because penicillin is valuable. So, we can value what we need nature for without valuing nature because of it, precisely because nature is also a source of disease and pain, and the cause of death.
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Michael Kowalik, When it is Not Logically Necessary for a Necessary Condition of Value to be Valuable - PhilPapers
The premise that it is logically necessary for a necessary condition of value to be valuable is sometimes used in metaethics in support of the claim that agency, or some constitutive ...
Negative inclusion is Exclusion.
To include the negation of something with that something, you only exclude that something, without including anything else in its place. For example, by including as women those who ‘contradict the premise that only females are women’ with those who ‘are women only because they are females’, you exclude females from women and end up with an empty category.
To include the negation of something with that something, you only exclude that something, without including anything else in its place. For example, by including as women those who ‘contradict the premise that only females are women’ with those who ‘are women only because they are females’, you exclude females from women and end up with an empty category.
If most people are substantially controllable under certain conditions, and those conditions can be produced by a leader, then most people are substantially not free to begin with. The degree to which people are controllable is not all or nothing; this is evidently a matter of degree and varies from person to person. On the other hand, since Humans are essentially moral beings (if we were not moral beings then our freedom would have no intrinsic value), we are not blameless for being controllable. And here lies a dilemma: we must either accept moral responsibility for our unfreedom, or we did not deserve freedom in the first place.
There is a feedback loop between morality and rationality: bad moral choices give rise to irrational beliefs, and irrational beliefs give rise to bad moral choices, and over time this can escalate to a catastrophe, but the process can also be reversed, leading to general moral improvement.
What makes us Human (rational consciousness) occurs in a different time to biological evolution, in a different reality. Crocodiles evolved for much much longer than Homo sapiens evolved from apes and are still just reptiles. In a sense, animality and humanity are opposites, but humans have the capacity to go back to the other side, become less conscious by prioritising their animality, or go beyond it, by prioritising their rational consciousness, within a single lifetime.
That chimps engage in tribalism, violence and social competition proves that these are not Human behaviours, but animal behaviours, and something else is necessary to be human.
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This Canadian sets it out well: https://twitter.com/DNSWilson/status/1655819673756389376?s=20
A lot of people are getting upset having their conduct during covid compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism.
Let's recapitulate.
A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres, restaurants, movies, pubs, clubs, swimming pools, sporting events, concerts, conventions, etc.
To access public facilities, people had to carry a digital mark with them so authorities could confirm they weren't unclean.
The unclean were fired and barred from most jobs: education, healthcare, courts - all public sector work, most major union jobs and a wide smattering of major private employers. When they were fired, the unclean were denied employment insurance, the reasoning being that they had been fired for cause on account of being unclean.
The unclean were banned from travel on trains, planes, and chartered boats. They had no legal means of leaving the country. Even if they wanted to, they could not escape the country that obviously hated them so.
It became illegal to socialize with the unclean. They weren't allowed to attend weddings or funerals, or visit sick relatives or friends in hospital.
Special laws were made for the unclean subjecting them to house arrest if they were around a person who had recently had a positive PCR test. The unclean had to continue to cover their faces in public when universal masking was dropped.
It became socially acceptable to wish death upon the unclean in social media and in major news organizations. Public health figures and other politicians gave press conferences to shame and insult the unclean. The public developed shared pejorative names for them, and relished in insulting the unclean.
News media regularly ran polls asking if the unclean should be arrested or fined. Public figures openly and proudly spoke about witholding medically necessary healthcare from the unclean - letting them die. The unclean were removed from organ transplant lists, condemned to almost certain death.
No end date for these measures was ever suggested, no timeline given. To the contrary, this was called the "new normal".
Criticizing any of these developments made you a social pariah, and likely cost you most of your friendships and family relations, if not your job.
The lesson of the Holocaust - and of covid - isn't that Germans or Albertans or people of the 21st Century are uniquely gullible or evil. It's that for most people, "morality" is not a matter of principle, but rather of adopting what they perceive to be the dominant group ideology - even if that ideology is marked by wanton irrationality or brutal inhumanity.
Indeed, as in certain cults or gangs, the brutality or irrationality of the acts or beliefs required to signal group inclusion further entrench people into the ideology, rather than repel them; a kind of perverse sunk cost fallacy writ large.
So, yes, if you're a typical person - Albertan, Canadian or otherwise - it is overwhelmingly likely that you would have been a Nazi if you were born in Nazi Germany. If you cheered along lockdowns and mandates, that likelihood approaches certainty.
Repent.
A lot of people are getting upset having their conduct during covid compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism.
Let's recapitulate.
A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres, restaurants, movies, pubs, clubs, swimming pools, sporting events, concerts, conventions, etc.
To access public facilities, people had to carry a digital mark with them so authorities could confirm they weren't unclean.
The unclean were fired and barred from most jobs: education, healthcare, courts - all public sector work, most major union jobs and a wide smattering of major private employers. When they were fired, the unclean were denied employment insurance, the reasoning being that they had been fired for cause on account of being unclean.
The unclean were banned from travel on trains, planes, and chartered boats. They had no legal means of leaving the country. Even if they wanted to, they could not escape the country that obviously hated them so.
It became illegal to socialize with the unclean. They weren't allowed to attend weddings or funerals, or visit sick relatives or friends in hospital.
Special laws were made for the unclean subjecting them to house arrest if they were around a person who had recently had a positive PCR test. The unclean had to continue to cover their faces in public when universal masking was dropped.
It became socially acceptable to wish death upon the unclean in social media and in major news organizations. Public health figures and other politicians gave press conferences to shame and insult the unclean. The public developed shared pejorative names for them, and relished in insulting the unclean.
News media regularly ran polls asking if the unclean should be arrested or fined. Public figures openly and proudly spoke about witholding medically necessary healthcare from the unclean - letting them die. The unclean were removed from organ transplant lists, condemned to almost certain death.
No end date for these measures was ever suggested, no timeline given. To the contrary, this was called the "new normal".
Criticizing any of these developments made you a social pariah, and likely cost you most of your friendships and family relations, if not your job.
The lesson of the Holocaust - and of covid - isn't that Germans or Albertans or people of the 21st Century are uniquely gullible or evil. It's that for most people, "morality" is not a matter of principle, but rather of adopting what they perceive to be the dominant group ideology - even if that ideology is marked by wanton irrationality or brutal inhumanity.
Indeed, as in certain cults or gangs, the brutality or irrationality of the acts or beliefs required to signal group inclusion further entrench people into the ideology, rather than repel them; a kind of perverse sunk cost fallacy writ large.
So, yes, if you're a typical person - Albertan, Canadian or otherwise - it is overwhelmingly likely that you would have been a Nazi if you were born in Nazi Germany. If you cheered along lockdowns and mandates, that likelihood approaches certainty.
Repent.
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Don Wilson, LLB 🇨🇦 (@DNSWilson) on X
A lot of people are getting upset having their conduct during covid compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism.
Let's recapitulate.
A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres…
Let's recapitulate.
A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres…
I use the Kantian definition of Humanity (conscious, rational beings capable of moral discernment), because only that part matters for our moral status, as opposed to Homo sapiens (species of animal). Anything that is not rational behaviour is not a behaviour of rational beings. On this view only rational behaviour is Human behaviour, it is the basis of our moral status, and everything else is animal behaviour that is at best morally neutral but can also undermine our moral status.
“It also ruled he was not an “eligible claimant” because he did not meet the “hospitalisation requirement”, having only been treated as an outpatient.” They make the “conditions” so difficult to satisfy and the inclusion criteria so narrow that they don’t have to pay anything. See, we care, we are ready to pay, you just don’t qualify. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/my-life-is-on-hold-young-tradie-blinded-after-moderna-vaccine-denied-compensation/news-story/ecefe023035617123c78aa4321e8fc9e
The relevant moral and legal distinction between deaths caused by vaccine mandates and deaths arising due to occupational or healthcare risks is the element of coercion (not the degree of risk, not the magnitude of benefits to the majority from killing the minority). The coercion to engage in an activity where a percentage of people are expected to die is the proof of the intent to kill, a guilty mind.
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The relevant moral and legal distinction between deaths caused by vaccine mandates and deaths arising due to occupational or healthcare risks is the element of coercion (not the degree of risk, not the magnitude of benefits to the majority from killing the…
Any “freedom activist” [influencer] who has not focussed on the above core violation but instead shifts your attention from one emotive case of vaccine harm to another, from one science paper to another, from one court case to another, must be considered a disinformation agent.
Religious rhetoric is a key feature of the fake freedom movement. It obscures that which is provable and universally accepted in the legal and ethical framework with appeals to unprovable metaphysical dogmas, ensuring thereby that no rational resolution of conflicting beliefs is possible. Religious dogmatism in the political domain is the hallmark of disinformation.