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6 days agoSelfishness is not a historical necessity of human nature, but rather one component of human nature as it exists in the current historical moment, shaped by current sociological, religious, political, and economic structures.
Attributing selfishness as an inherent part of human nature and letting that underpin your misanthropy is wrong on two accounts:
- You’ve taken a postion of idealism, a philosophy which has viciously been made obsolete for over 100 years.
- You’ve expressed a problem, humanity and its selfishness, but have no solution to your problem besides an idea: hatred against humanity. A problem without a solution is useless. You’ve let your hatred make you impotent.
I suggest you do some reading to better understand the idea of human nature.
A favorite of mine is Elementary Principles of Philosophy.
You’ve suggested that selfishness is a universal aspect of human nature.
I suggested that selfishness is not a universal aspect of human nature, but instead a result of the intra-actions between human beings and political systems as they currently exist.
Explain how it is I, and not you, who is the ideologue in this situation.