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@horace said in College Rankings:
Righteousness begets violence. That is its purpose as an emotion, that is why it was selectively advantageous. People need to be sane and civil to form stable societies, but they also need to have a destructive, bloodthirsty mode. That is what righteousness is.
A certain objective* thinker you know has phrased it as "violence is hypermoralism".
@jon-nyc said in College Rankings:
@horace said in College Rankings:
Righteousness begets violence. That is its purpose as an emotion, that is why it was selectively advantageous. People need to be sane and civil to form stable societies, but they also need to have a destructive, bloodthirsty mode. That is what righteousness is.
A certain objective* thinker you know has phrased it as "violence is hypermoralism".
No need for a neologism like "hypermoralism", unless one wants to pose. Righteousness is a fine word, probably better than whatever homebrew definition our objective thinker has in their rather muddy mind.
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@jon-nyc said in College Rankings:
@horace said in College Rankings:
Righteousness begets violence. That is its purpose as an emotion, that is why it was selectively advantageous. People need to be sane and civil to form stable societies, but they also need to have a destructive, bloodthirsty mode. That is what righteousness is.
A certain objective* thinker you know has phrased it as "violence is hypermoralism".
No need for a neologism like "hypermoralism", unless one wants to pose. Righteousness is a fine word, probably better than whatever homebrew definition our objective thinker has in their rather muddy mind.
@horace said in College Rankings:
@jon-nyc said in College Rankings:
@horace said in College Rankings:
Righteousness begets violence. That is its purpose as an emotion, that is why it was selectively advantageous. People need to be sane and civil to form stable societies, but they also need to have a destructive, bloodthirsty mode. That is what righteousness is.
A certain objective* thinker you know has phrased it as "violence is hypermoralism".
No need for a neologism like "hypermoralism", unless one wants to pose.
I even say it in French in my head while writing it.
