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ElectronicBionic

You know what word you don't hear these days?

Conscience

Because it's a forgotten thing in this world. Nobody has one anymore. People are willing to say anything no matter how horrible to their face for little more reason than it's through text/online format. Things that would get them voted out of society if they said in person in public. We're allowing celebrities and news personalities to inform us of right and wrong. Tell us what we should think. How we should feel. Dictating our conscience to us. That's abusive.

Individual conscience has been completely sacrificed to collectivism.

Conscience:

-Is not what your internal voice/feeling says (we got a pill for that disorder BTW)

-Is whatever Hollywood actors think is right or wrong in Georgia.

-Is not what your innate warning signal is telling you, that's a wrong feeling why didn't you take your pill?

-The right feeling is whatever serves society or its advancement or what we deem to be progress. Because we're progressive.

There is a cancer spreading within mankind and it's the deadening of all meaning that 'conscience' has and the banalization of the word.

And as far as that goes we're killing babies minutes after birth now.

Can we start using the word conscience again?

Posted Jul 13, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

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Sugarymidnite•

You had me right up until you implied that pro choicers have no conscience. Whether or not we agree or disagree with their belief it is in accordance with their conscience.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

Ok. Conscience.

I have a conscience...my conscience expects me to be reasonable. Let's make an abortion deal.

Let's pretend it's you for your side, me for mine, a document is between us whatever is signed becomes eternal law of the land.

Game?

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Sugarymidnite•

That doesn’t necessarily make that conscience the right one. It just means at that time period more people who held that specific belief showed up at the polls and voted for similar minded leaders.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

I'm not saying anything about right or wrong here. What I'm saying is that people are allowing the death of conscience. Maybe for some that's an inherently bad thing, maybe for some it's an inherently good thing. But it's happening.

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Sugarymidnite•

But using the example of abortion you’re implying those who are pro choice are wrong

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SebtownFarmGirl•

Tallywacker?

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Glass_bonesNo god or kings. Only man•

Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. It's the only rule anyone ever needs to know.

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r2k398Stop being poor•

Always let your conscience be your guide.

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PM_YOUR_VOLVO_TO_ME•

> Individual conscience has been completely sacrificed to collectivism.

People don't value individualism anymore. Everyone has been taught that they just need to fit in and find a group to identify with and that attitude has been taken to its logical conclusion. People value post-modern collectivism over traditional individualism and the end result of that is caring way too much about what other people think.

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We have all endorsed this behavior by not telling people to not give a fuck what other people think and we haven't told people to get over their limp dicked personal issues.

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The people that are running the show have completely infected young people with the idea of "if I just yell loud enough, an adult will do something to stop someone from doing something I don't like." and that attitude carries over into adulthood where the same mental amoebas will demand that the government intervene to stop someone from upsetting them.

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There is another component that you're missing and that is the fact that people don't have any purpose anymore. We teach kids to "go to school, get a good job and then you'll be happy" and that is not true. Happiness is nearly never derived from a vocation and the fact that the majority of people have a "do nothing/make nothing" job doesn't help with this. So these derelict paper boat people latch onto an identity and form a group around that. The problem with that is

  • If your entire existence and life is built on a foundation that's as flimsy as what you like to do with your genitals then you may as well have built a house on quicksand.

When someone builds their life around fucking, not fucking, and whatever else, that is setting yourself up for a life time of suffering trying to prevent that facade from collapsing to reveal the hollow shell that you are. Being that people do not like to feel attacked, they will do everything they can to keep people from asking what's inside their shell house and questioning their judgement about why they built it.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

Oh man I'm only scratching the surface dude it goes all over. Its in education, it's in universities, it's in schools, it's bad yo

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PM_YOUR_VOLVO_TO_ME•

Mind if I ask how old you are approximately?

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xxYYZxx•

Good points. This article attempts to explain the phenomenon you've described in terms of the "Cybernetic Hypothesis"...

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-the-cybernetic-hypothesis

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"The Cybernetic Hypothesis is thus a political hypothesis, a new fable that after the second world war has definitively supplanted the liberal hypothesis. Contrary to the latter, it proposes to conceive biological, physical, and social behaviors as something integrally programmed and re-programmable. More precisely, it conceives of each individual behavior as something “piloted,” in the last analysis, by the need for the survival of a “system” that makes it possible, and which it must contribute to." ibid

People who watch TV & consume mass media are entirely beholden to the media "system" they consume for all of their beliefs. Mass media consumption is really no different than religious zealotry, it's just the media has changed from Bibles, fresco paintings, and stained glass windows, into satellite-based digital communication systems.

For the consumer, the media system they consume, be it the Church or today's TV & Moves must be unassailable or else the mass hypnosis of the media consumers is exposed to the light. Cognitive dissonance reigns where people who consume mass media speak out against the very oppression they unwittingly support.

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Beefslayerx•

I don't think it adds weight on my conscience when I tell genocidal commie fanboys they're despicable cunts.

And I definitely have a conscience.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

Are you objectively, empirically able to prove they're actually genocidal commie fanboys?

Liars be all around... at least one person knows me to be a marxist purely for maintaining a good finger on the fuckers pulse.

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Beefslayerx•

In certain cases, yes. Lenin infamously said "in order to make an omelet, you have to crack a few eggs" when confronted by international press about the brutalities and murders of the bolshevik revolutions.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

Yeah but not every case. For objective proof, almost as a matter of statistics you've at some point been a complete asshat to someone that didn't deserve it.

I mean no judgement here I'm the same I wouldn't be taking my soapbox without that consideration

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Beefslayerx•

Oke true, but my I stand by my overall point.

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[deleted]•

Change consciousness for appropriate consequence and accountablility. Privlege and passes are the problem. The conscience is there but if I can rape someone on video and get out 3 months later, I'll just make sure theres no camera next time.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

Doesn't sound like the conscience is there if you're willing to rape then rape again because the camera isn't there.

Like...no...no conscience there

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[deleted]•

Josh Turner was my metaphor if you didnt understand. Just like the appropriate consequences part flee right over you. Proven rape shouldn't have fluxuating jail time but you went where?

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ElectronicBionicOP•

No you brought the guy up you invoked rape you went there

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rp2865Palutena's Guidance•

Every human society has to balance pursuing what is good and understanding what is good to reach an optimal middle ground. Go too far to the former and you get X horrible authoritarian policy, too far to the latter and you don’t get anything done. This is no new phenomenon. You seem overly entrenched in the former.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

The latter and the former sound like the same thing. Authoritarian policy gets me nothing in the former, it takes authoritarians to take everything from me in the latter.

There's no distinction there

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rp2865Palutena's Guidance•

In the latter, nobody would take anything from you because they were too focused on understanding whether that would be moral to actually do it. Sorry if that part was unclear and I made a small edit in case it was.

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ElectronicBionicOP•

And in the latter I'm demotivated for having nothing and no ability to do anything about it exactly like the former.

Same shit. These are the same thing

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rp2865Palutena's Guidance•

that’s a you problem dood.

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Vasuki44•

I think your issue isn’t people aren’t following their conscience, it’s that they’re not following your conscience. I follow my conscience, it tells me to support and fight for the right to abort. Weird thing to throw in, pretty indicative that of your worldview.

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