[lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:41:51 -0400
Robert, I didn't mean to sound so hard on you. I guess I'm so used to
getting jumped on that I got over defensive. I don't retract any of my
prescriptions for improving the human race, just the tone to the limited
extent my comments applied to you. The human race isn't improvable anyway,
so there's no point in getting excited about even trying to improve it.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 4/2/2006 11:17:23 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
> >
> > > Andy: I shop at Walmart because not shopping there isn't going to
> > > make one iota of difference to the world or to Walmart. I also
> > > think that even though the products are probably produced in sweat
> > > shops, the alternative for a lot of those people, especially the
> > > children, is sexual exploitation. So I shop at Walmart,.
> >
> > And besides, those child slaves in Bangladesh probably won't live long
> > enough to have children of their own, thus stopping the cascade of
> > violence from generation to generation that's at the heart of all the
> > world's ills. Clever of you to have thought of that.
> >
>
> Obviously you think child slavery is not such a big deal. It is a
> horrible, huge, monstrous deal, almost beyond description. It's killing a
> child (and future adult) without actually killing them. Dickens was
> traumatized enough by his working in a factory. Had he been sexually
> assaulted on a regular basis, things would have been much worse.
Regarding
> rationalization, I don't see how you can say I rationalize by making a
> distinction between sweat shop and sex trade. Regarding defenses that I
> use, you'd be surprised, very few. It's why I hate humanity. I can't
> imagine how anyone can look around and really see what's going on and not
> loathe humanity. I know what humans are capable of, and they use every
> ounce of their capability.
>
> Regarding not passing things on from one generation to the next, if I were
> king of the world, I would make it illegal for anyone doing drugs or
> alcohol to have babies. You do drugs or alcohol, you forfeit your right
to
> reproduce, that's it. It would be mandatory (sterilization). Of course,
> the religious right would take away my crown real quick. The religious
> right loves babies until they're born, after which they stick them to the
> bottom of their shoe. I don't understand why the U.N. doesn't do more to
> outlaw corporal punishment of children, including the worst form of abuse,
> sexual.
>
> For Eric, it sounds to me like someone setting out to write the Great
> American Novel might have NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). NPD?s
> think themselves above humanity. They actually hate themselves (the NPD
is
> the persona covering up the scared little self inside). NPD?s can be
> dangerous people. Milton of course set out to do something along those
> lines, but I think he set out to write *his* biggest work, even if it
> involved explaining God?s ways to man. I always kind of liked Milton. It
> doesn't matter if people are weird, as long as they don't hurt anybody, I
> still hate them, I mean, like them. (Just kidding, just kidding).
>
> Sorry about the rambling last night about throwing stuff out. It?s been
> something of an obsession, it?s leveling off now. I think I need a
defense
> mechanism for it.
>
>
>
> > Robert Paul
> > Ernest Jones Lecturer in Rationalization
> > Mutton College
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