The truth is not the answer.
The truth is a question.
State your question.
A truthful question.Are you saying that we can only seek truth, and get closer to it, and never actually have it entirely? And that it would be in vain to seek an all-encompassing solution?
Are you saying that we can only seek truth, and get closer to it, and never actually have it entirely? And that it would be in vain to seek an all-encompassing solution?
Why do so many people have the illusion that we live in a world where mass suffering is a rare event, only a small portion of people hold the capacity to cause this kind of suffering, and that they would never take advantage of another person?
The truth of the matter is that the greater portion of the world's population is suffering, every single person born has the capacity to cause great suffering (it just takes the right environment/situation), and most people in "civilized" societies have taken benefit from extortion (living on land that was gained through genocide or theft, wearing clothes that were made in sweatshops, or willingly accepting any other resources that were gained only through the use of other people).
How do you know we don't hold that illusion, and just don't care as long as we and our friends aren't the ones who suffer? I mean, should we be expected to give up what we have because of where it came from, and risk bringing suffering/loss on ourselves? Why should we make it our problem if those people you speak of, who are suffering, never did anything for us, or care about us? There's no reason to.
How do you know we don't help the people we help to make ourselves look good? And doesn't it make them look generous to themselves, to have done something for someone else for nothing? Why is the idea of pure self-interest so painful and hard to accept?
Is guilt hypocricy?Maybe I was referring to an entirely different group of people, and not your type of person? I myself am out for pure self-interest, which is partially why I made that post in the first place. If I were actually against that kind of behavior, it would have been dreadfully hypocritical and all, sitting in my comfy house on the internet.
And here we have The First Prize Question.Is it then that we live to guess?
Is guilt hypocricy?
You drink your cheap coffee (produced by slave labour) from your cheap coffee mug (produced by slave labour) while wearing cheap jeans (produced by slave labour) and a cheap cotton shirt to match (produced by slave labour) and cheap sandals (produced by slave labour).
Then you find out that the red brick house on the other side of the street is an illegal workshop.
Twenty imported, undernourished and beaten children work there 18 hours a day, without pay. You know this, because they run a brothel also, using these same children, and there are rumours.
And then you decide to make this anonymous phone call to the police.
You watch from your window when the police arrives with sirens blaring.
Was it hypocricy that caused you make the call? Or is it guilt?
Maybe the police does not arrive.
By then you know they are in on the game.
Does this additional piece of new information make you feel better? More hypocritical perhaps?
So what happens when we are willing to stop guessing? Is that truth? Or is it just death?