Hating the Better

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 9 months ago to Philosophy
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There is an evil so despicable it is the foundation for many other evils: the hatred of those who are better—who have more of any positive human attribute or character trait—for being better. Perpetrators consign themselves to a hell of their own creation. It is the never-admitted malice motivating many apostles of high-sounding political themes. Rip away the purported justifications for murderous doctrines and one finds cesspools of such animus. Calling this mindlessness “the politics of envy” or “class warfare” is nomenclatural diminishment of a terrifying viciousness that has slipped all bounds and threatens to consume the world; it’s like calling an arsenal of hydrogen bombs “munitions.”

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Money is not the root of all evil... Envy is."
    The bible says "the love of money", which is closer to envy than if it simply said "money."
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
    "the hatred of those who are better—who have more of any positive human attribute or character trait—for being better"
    In our highly specialized world, this idea of hating people who are better at something leads to a lot of hate b/c so many people are very good in their area of specialization or their favorite hobby.
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Man commits evil so I don't understand how a standard of evil can be external to man. Therefore, I decline your challenge. I don't waste my time on per se impossible tasks.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    GODS' HAIRY BALLS! get out the lectern, flanap is in the house!
    go ahead, bang on it til the cows come home...we'll be here tomorrow, discussing the important SHIT
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  • Posted by flanap 9 years, 9 months ago
    Interesting this line..."There is an evil so despicable it is the foundation for many other evils: the hatred of those who are better" I challenge the author to define evil using an immutable standard external to man. I cannot be done without referring to God.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 9 months ago
    "Perpetrators consign themselves to a hell of their own creation." If my deceased mother-in-law had learned that lesson, my wife's whole extended family would have been much better off. The worst part of that hell of their own creation is that the perpetrators think it is their life goal to drag the rest of us into their personal hell.
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  • Posted by CarolSeer2014 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What you've just said is something I've known and revered for a long time--(to paraphrase Richard Dawkins)--ever since as a child I learned the lesson of the Little Red Hen--Then I will eat it myself!
    How our morality begins in childhood!
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 9 months ago
    It's interesting to watch through the years how the progressive collectivists in manipulating the relatively uninformed middle class and the 'no idea' lower class have utilized the founder's words to bring about increases of envy and jealousy to the levels of hate and a simmering rage at the better performers of society. 'All men are created equal' has been pounded into those susceptible minds to mean that all men ARE equal. And since all are equal, then all should have an equal piece of the pie, with no thought or gratitude for who made that pie, who got the ingredients, who had the oven, who paid for the gas, even who had the pan. And if they won't share their pie voluntarily with a smile on their faces, well we'll take it for you and won't even let them have a slice.

    And now, in the last several years, it's even been pounded into those low information classes that there's no longer a ladder out of their situations now, because those 'betters' have taken it all unto themselves. It just goes on and on. I personally wonder with increasing doubt if there's anyway out of this quagmire of rising hate, other than a huge set back of all the marvelous progress made by humanity overall in the last 150 years or so.

    Great essay Robert!
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 9 years, 9 months ago
    That reminds me of the Rush song "Half the World" on the album Test for Echo. I would post the lyrics but I encourage listening to the song because the music is awesome, as is usual for Rush. (Well that is just my humble opinion)

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