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!@#$%! · 03.20.2009, 01:08 PM

suchfrinds-- many of those abolitionists were paternalistic and thought themselves superior, they just thought their superiority obliged them to be do-gooders instead of slavers. others had an interest in peddling machinery, for which slave labor was competition. others (i read babbington's entry) were sexists. take everyone with an ignorant streak from your list and you end up with nobody.

darwin was a seminal thinker in the field of science. period. looking to him for moral guidance is kinda stupid. his word is not gospel anyway-- it's a theory that gets constantly revised and developed. you keep the parts that make sense and discard the crap. it's how science works.

yes eugenics was in part derived from him, but so what. the spartans killed malformed children. animals do that too. someone discovered the fire and now we have napalm; another discovered the wheel and now we have global warming, etc. etc. we're always going to use knowledge for stupid ends. so fucking what. who the fuck is perfect? we fuck up and we correct our ways. nobody knows the end of the fucking story. prophesies can kiss my skunky ass-- the lies of conmen. nobody knows where we're going and the future will look back at us and laugh a little-- so what? you do what you can, then you die. that's life, o wise one.

03.20.2009, 01:08 PM	#10
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,496	suchfrinds-- many of those abolitionists were paternalistic and thought themselves superior, they just thought their superiority obliged them to be do-gooders instead of slavers. others had an interest in peddling machinery, for which slave labor was competition. others (i read babbington's entry) were sexists. take everyone with an ignorant streak from your list and you end up with nobody. darwin was a seminal thinker in the field of science. period. looking to him for moral guidance is kinda stupid. his word is not gospel anyway-- it's a theory that gets constantly revised and developed. you keep the parts that make sense and discard the crap. it's how science works. yes eugenics was in part derived from him, but so what. the spartans killed malformed children. animals do that too. someone discovered the fire and now we have napalm; another discovered the wheel and now we have global warming, etc. etc. we're always going to use knowledge for stupid ends. so fucking what. who the fuck is perfect? we fuck up and we correct our ways. nobody knows the end of the fucking story. prophesies can kiss my skunky ass-- the lies of conmen. nobody knows where we're going and the future will look back at us and laugh a little-- so what? you do what you can, then you die. that's life, o wise one.
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