And just like that, the voluntary, private data gathering stage of the programme is concluded. The programme knows your personality, wishes, doubts, strengths, weaknesses, and interests, which are all associated with your phone number. When an AI company loses money providing you with their service, it proves that it is you who is commodified, and the profit part will happen later, at your expense. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt

BREAKING NEWS: The word of the year for 2024 is “de-escalation”.

People believe that being able to own land is their right, paid for with their ingenuity and hard work. They have contempt for those who who do not “really work” but only philosophise. These proud owners are oblivious to the fact that 400 years ago some philosopher whose name they do not care to know convinced the owner class and the kings to let the little man have a bit more power, freedom and rights, to give him a chance to demonstrate human equality through moral conduct. It appears that the little man has failed.

It is not just a conflict of philosophical beliefs; the concept of self-assessed gender identity is itself logically inconsistent. The legal requirement to recognise a male as a woman amounts to mandating that a person who regards womanhood as inextricably determined by sex must deny her own gender identity. Proponents of transgender identity misgender everyone else. https://archive.md/3sZPB

You shall not mirror the irrationality of others, lest you too would become irrational. You shall not engage with the aberrant in others as if it were an argument that needs refuting; aberration becomes emptiness when faced with silence.

If our rulers intended to radically depopulate the planet they would not bother about lab grown meat and maggots for human food. It would be pointless. At least one of these stories must be false, or both could be false, in which case the stories are intended only to elicit a defensive reaction. People expect a climax, some great catastrophic event, but it does not come. Rather, the political reality is like a permanently festering wound. The business machine grinds on, taxes must be paid, lawns have to be mowed.

In every war everyone is only defending themselves. Self-defence is clearly not a very good argument for systematic killing; a misleading argument.

It is not possible to have world peace if 80% or even 10% of the population are murderers at heart, as symbolised by Cain in the Book of Genesis. It was in Cain’s nature to use murder instrumentally, to justify murder in self defence, whereas Abel could not do so under any circumstances, it was not in his nature, and this was the difference of kind that was plain from the position of the ideal personhood. If peace is not possible then ‘standing for peace’, or being ‘on the side of peace’ is a hollow gesture; war is inevitable. Since it is inevitable then the most just management of this instinct is to allow those who are murderers at heart to fight those who are also murderers at heart, and keep everyone else out of harm’s way. The only other way would be general oppression, because anyone could be a covert murderer until circumstances or ideology would reveal their true nature.

It is an error to idolise one’s own ethnic ancestors instead of learning from all past human achievements, errors and crimes without distinction on the basis of culture or ethnicity.

White agitators attempt to incite hatred against black Aboriginal people by committing hate-crimes in their name, to ‘liberate’ them from racial equality.

Honest people do not care whether other people trust them. The preoccupation with public trust is a hallmark of sociopaths.

Colonisation and the Colonised

It is an arbitrary value judgement to regard cultural colonisation as morally wrong and the preservation of native cultures as morally right. All conceptual progress and cultural evolution was accomplished via disruption of land-bound communities that became culturally inert and therefore conceptually oppressive, stuck in conceptually irreconcilable dead ends. Colonisation stimulated conceptual development and transcendence, incrementally advancing towards human integration as a universal kind of rational beings, beyond tribal identity. In this light it were the colonised cultures that impeded universal humanity and universal morality, obstinately irrational and conceptually fallow and therefore posed an obstacle to human reflexivity based on conscious, rational agency. It is only through colonisation that universal humanity became a meaningful idea, a new possibility of universal belonging, and the price to pay is the same for everyone: to reject their cultural conditioning and group identity and embrace what we all have in common.

Nothing provokes a compensatory response like the overt disrespect directed at someone’s perceived identity. The propagandised devaluation of Australia Day must be understood as intended to re-energise nationalism, especially white nationalism. Without this provocation, Australia Day would become just another meaningless public holiday for drinking meaningless lives away, like Queens Birthday. Nationalistic identity is absolutely necessary for waging war, and war is useful for discharging the animal energy of the population by pitting it against the same energy in another nation, in a reasonably controlled (and profitable) manner.

Summary of the ICJ Order in South Africa v Israel re provisional measures pursuant to the Genocide Convention. Let us imagine, for the sake of argument, that this is not all part of a script with pre-determined outcomes. Under this assumption, the Order is probably as balanced and delicate as it could be to have any persuasive effect on Israel’s moral awareness, taking into account the irreconcilable sentiments on both sides of the conflict. https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-sum-01-00-en.pdf

The existence of fake opposition is perfectly compatible with the existence of fake official position.

The use of human shields to achieve military objectives is prohibited by international law, because it instrumentally puts non-combatants/civilians in harm’s way. Instrumental targeting of human shields to achieve military objectives is therefore also prohibited, for the same reason.

The argument that a country under attack by an adversary using human shields has the right to kill those human shields in order to defend its innocent civilians implies that their own citizens have priority in regard to the right to life over the innocent human shields, which is racial or ethnic or nationalistic supremacism. It also implies that the right to life is not a human right but a privilege of the victor, might is right, therefore the law of the jungle, therefore neither moral law nor humanity matters, therefore the party making the argument are savages.

The problem with the trolley problem is that it divides 6 individuals into two groups and then implies that these groups have (unequal) moral status as groups, not (equal) moral status as individuals. This is wrong. The correct moral approach to the problem is to consider all involved individuals as possessing equal rights. No person among the six individuals involved has a better moral entitlement to being saved than the person on the side track, and every person has the moral entitlement not to be intentionally killed for the benefit of another. Moral duties and prohibitions derive from the moral status of the person and are not negated, diminished or amplified by the multiplicity of persons.

Hypothesis: Does age segregated schooling hold children back from optimal development, essentially reducing their skills to the lowest common denominator, which may be below their natural competence? It seems that age-peer influence in the development process is counterproductive to the development of sophisticated skills, prioritising ‘fitting-in’ with the low competence group over best role models and instruction.