bioemerl:

This just in; world isn't flowers and roses.

I'll say it a thousand times. The world we live in does not have a single regard for morality. Slavery, oppression, it's all fair game, even today, and always will be, even in the west/first world. We are lucky as hell to live in a society that progressed to the point where we need people to be educated, healthy, and efficient in order to function well, because if we didn't we would be living on scraps and working every waking hour of our lives like the people in these nations that haven't progressed as we have.

I'm a bit of a moral nihilist, apparently, but I do not believe it's a coincidence that slavery became wrong when the industrial revolution happened. It's no coincidence that feminism became a thing as work shifted from labor into service and thought. It's no coincidence that we are happy killing thousands of cute little animals for meat, using tons of fossil fuels, and buying products sourced from slaves.

We aren't moral, we pretend to be.


posted 2969 days ago