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Your friend made The Evilness of Power???!?!?! Damn! That was a good doc!
yes he's making another one he almost finished i will post it when it's done it's about Thomas Ferguson's book called Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Politics
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Anyways, Menace, in order to sustain life we must have a purpose to do so or we are living like plants. Even a dog has a purpose to take an action of free will. A dog is hungry so he eats. What was his purpose for doing so? He WANTS ( <<< key word) to subside his hunger and to survive. That is a purpose. Taking a free will action with a clear reason to do so, whether it is in the natural order or not, is to take that action with purpose. Therefore, existence, on a small scale, has a purpose when speaking only of objects that have the special ability of free will.
that's not a purpose it's part of the natural order in the animal kingdom everything sustains itself whit out informal synthetic purposes it's their animal instinct to survive is not a purpose they act on their natural impulses they are not conscious beings to understand why they eat they eat because that's in their natural impulse to eat to sleep and such we humans are the only ones that understand why we do that they don't people confuse purpose whit natural machinery i am not saying we as individual conscious beings don't create purposes I'm saying purpose is a synthetic creation
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there's always going to be people that want to take advantage or do evil things,
"Individuals are certainly capable of evil . . . But individuals are capable of all sorts of things. Human nature has lots of ways of realizing itself, humans have lots of capacities and options. Which ones reveal themselves depends to a large extent on the institutional structures. If we had institutions which permitted pathological killers free rein, they'd be running the place. The only way to survive would be to let those elements of your nature manifest themselves.
"If we have institutions which make greed the sole property of human beings and encourage pure greed at the expense of other human emotions and commitments, we're going to have a society based on greed, with all that follows. A different society might be organized in such a way that human feelings and emotions of other sorts, say, solidarity, support, sympathy become dominant. Then you'll have different aspects of human nature and personality revealing themselves." - quote from professor Noam Chomsky