My philsopher friend, my friend philosophy

As a tribute to Friedrich Nietzsche, a dude strong enough to crush your arguments with his fists, and cynical enough to kill you, I will post a list of unpleasant facts. In the future, a list of more pleasant truths, just to keep things balanced.

-Morals may change the payoffs in strategic games, but they are not "out there" as is an electron, and they aren't even as real as a chair, and "moral progress" is just intellectual development. You think we stopped burning witches because we gained a conscience? Nonsense.
-You may fall in love with a person, but you love attributes and to love as much as you love the person, and yourself. And your parents probably don't love each child equally. They're just people., anyway
-Freedom can almost always be enhanced by accompanying forms of authoritarian demands...The case of the legislated sound-proof glass. By the way, you have no free will
-People are not as unique as they think they are.
-People expect the fruits of scientific labour without committing themselves to the discipline of scientific rationalism. Science is all that civilised us. Some of us lack scientific thinking. Sometimes its not their fault.
-There is nothing guaranteeing justice, so stop being a coward and thinking things will improve for you in the afterlife. And perhaps stop worrying about being punished in the afterlife. Its not like there is one, anyway
-Paedophiles, necrophiliacs and the like are not evil, they are as human as you.
-Love will always carry a tiny trace of possessiveness and jealousy.
-Terrorism seems to work, at least in the short term. Which is what matters, for those that are alive.
-Most people think less of the poor and don’t care as much about the fat and the ugly.
-The computers are the most impressive objects in the Louvre.
-Everything worthwhile, beauty and brains, and everything less but worthwhile was borne in an ongoing struggle of blood and misery.
-Horrible fates await peacekeepers, thinkers, romantics, the traumatised, the weak, the crippled, the alone
-Humans like to feel superior to others. But then again, there's nothing impossible about being better than some other person in all respects.
-Just because you can name various foods, this doesn't mean that you're cultured.
-Induction is flawed, note the grue and the Black Raven paradoxes
-People behave eugenically. Although nobody should be there to take your right away to do so, few people want to make love to a severely retarded person. It just makes sense
-There is no inherent justification or goodness in the majority getting what it wants, although this is a highly stable arrangement.


Moralising and virtue psychology are never too far from my consciousness. Every day, I'm less narcissistic though. There are always two sides to every story (actually, at least two), and always being constructive is easy when it becomes habit . Ignorance is bliss? Rubbish.

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