28 Jun 2022 3:14 pm
The way that the vast majority of people approach politics is...if not gossip about specific politicians...simply an opinion they have about what the government SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do...based on their own arbitrary ethics.
And where do people pick up their ethics? Movies, mainly. Entertainment. Works of fiction. You can tell when an actor is giving you some ethical construct that you should internalize based on the soundtrack.
Alternatively...you might get some of your ethics from schooling or some media echo chamber you dwell in.
Once upon a time I suppose people got their ethics from church. But that seems vanishing rare today.
Anyway...point is...nobody has their own 'unique' sense of ethics. It is all group think and it is all arbitrary.
The only way 2 people can have a discussion or a debate about ethics is if they happen to agree on the ultimate goal of ethics (say...going to heaven or something)
Anyway...politics is not ethics.. 'the government should not take away our guns' is not a political comment...it is an ethical comment. 'Police should not randomly kill black people' is not a political comment...it is an ethical comment.
Get the idea?
Politics is about power. It is about distinguishing friend and enemy. And it is about organizing society in an effective manner.
Those are the sorts of discussions that are amazingly rare...even on a political forum
And where do people pick up their ethics? Movies, mainly. Entertainment. Works of fiction. You can tell when an actor is giving you some ethical construct that you should internalize based on the soundtrack.
Alternatively...you might get some of your ethics from schooling or some media echo chamber you dwell in.
Once upon a time I suppose people got their ethics from church. But that seems vanishing rare today.
Anyway...point is...nobody has their own 'unique' sense of ethics. It is all group think and it is all arbitrary.
The only way 2 people can have a discussion or a debate about ethics is if they happen to agree on the ultimate goal of ethics (say...going to heaven or something)
Anyway...politics is not ethics.. 'the government should not take away our guns' is not a political comment...it is an ethical comment. 'Police should not randomly kill black people' is not a political comment...it is an ethical comment.
Get the idea?
Politics is about power. It is about distinguishing friend and enemy. And it is about organizing society in an effective manner.
Those are the sorts of discussions that are amazingly rare...even on a political forum