Beautiful painting, but...mynameisboxcarMay 22 2007, 06:07:56 UTC
While that may work well on a strictly personal level (for relatively privelidged individuals such as ourselves), there are certain injustices wreaked upon humanity on a daily basis. While I know that I will be okay, even if shit hits the fan, or life "takes me" in a different direction, there are others who do not have such a luxury
I cannot concede that it is a persons inevitable fate to die of starvation, or be killed by militias in Sudan, or work in a factory with dangerous and old equipment.
This is why I'm no good in philosophy classes: I apply nice ideas like yours to the most oppressed and impoverished people on earth.
You're right in the sense that we're given the life we have at birth, and thus there are certain elements of that life that we're stuck with: parents, location you grow up in, genes. I'm not one to get into the quantum mechanic implications of it all, since there's so little known about them, either.
I guess I agree that there are a lot of people out there though, who ARE going to be okay if relatively bad things happen, and are still frantic about their daily life, at the expense of their quality of life, and health.
My thing is that I see a lot of people applying similar ideas on a universal level. Or ideas about perservering through the hard times and seeing a brighter day at the end of it. Those are the kinds of things that kind of make my blood boil, as they tend to compare their own suffering to those in incomparable situations. I didn't mean to negate what you were saying, especially since you weren't making a blanket statement about how one ought to live.
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I cannot concede that it is a persons inevitable fate to die of starvation, or be killed by militias in Sudan, or work in a factory with dangerous and old equipment.
This is why I'm no good in philosophy classes: I apply nice ideas like yours to the most oppressed and impoverished people on earth.
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I guess I agree that there are a lot of people out there though, who ARE going to be okay if relatively bad things happen, and are still frantic about their daily life, at the expense of their quality of life, and health.
My thing is that I see a lot of people applying similar ideas on a universal level. Or ideas about perservering through the hard times and seeing a brighter day at the end of it. Those are the kinds of things that kind of make my blood boil, as they tend to compare their own suffering to those in incomparable situations. I didn't mean to negate what you were saying, especially since you weren't making a blanket statement about how one ought to live.
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