Re: The joy of Democracy

On 22/10/2024 07:30, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:14:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On 21 Oct 2024 23:17:12 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:58:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:53:35 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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Once the Left introduced morality into politics it left the door open
for every kind of hatred and bigotry.

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I thought it was the Right, not the Left, that wanted to turn abortion
rights from a health issue into a religious issue.

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The left are just as religious in a secular sort of way.

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Is that supposed to be saying something good about religion, or
something bad?

 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion
 1, if you leave aside the supernatural and 3 are fitting. Hoffer's 'The
True Believer' is dated but still valid.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
 You might want to examine one of your beliefs, equality. Unless you
abstract it to the point of meaninglessness it is no different than a
belief in a diety, an afterlife, salvation, or any other fervently held
beliefs.
 

Deity.

Or indeed, males who cannot have babies at all, also supporting such a
thing. You find it odd that human beings might want to support each
other in a common fight?
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I never thought of compassion as a “left-wing” thing, but so be it ...

  I've been rereading Nietzsche. You should try some. How do you equate
brutal, short lives without a coercive government with compassion as a
universal virtue?

In the end Nietzsche was just another nutter,.  A comedian poking fun which some people took seriously.
Where morality is concerned, we are products of ancestors whose behaviour *for whatever reason* enabled us to be born and survive long enough to be here.
Nietzsche observed that life's losers didn't reproduce. Hitler made it policy.
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“Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee,”
  – Ludwig von Mises