I think this whole guilt business is useless. Heroic responsibility seems the correct way to deal with things.
“What are you going to do about it? That’s the only question you get to answer.”
If I look upon the world and see oppression and see that it is bad, I should see what I can do to make that situation better, see if it’s an easier line of utility-creating than other plans, and then go about doing it.
Along the way I might consider the strategy of allocating guilt between myself and other people, but doing that, I really ought to understand that guilt is being used instrumentally to get people to do things, and is otherwise not interesting.
(this is more directed at the whole guilt discussion than specifically your comment)
I think this whole guilt business is useless. Heroic responsibility seems the correct way to deal with things.
“What are you going to do about it? That’s the only question you get to answer.”
If I look upon the world and see oppression and see that it is bad, I should see what I can do to make that situation better, see if it’s an easier line of utility-creating than other plans, and then go about doing it.
Along the way I might consider the strategy of allocating guilt between myself and other people, but doing that, I really ought to understand that guilt is being used instrumentally to get people to do things, and is otherwise not interesting.
(this is more directed at the whole guilt discussion than specifically your comment)