I have been dismayed, to say the least, by
the sheer hatred and inhumanity shown by this
IQ45/Musk administration… and it has been less
than 2 months since the inauguration…
and I must confess to dreaming up terrible tortures
for everyone involved in the IQ45 administration…
dreams from one who has no power of any kind to
affect or change events going on around him…
and in my studies of Socrates, as noted, Vlastos book
‘‘Socrates’’ Ironist and moral philosopher…
I came across some pages that has put a pause in my
‘‘never going to happen’’ dreams of stopping these ‘‘evil’’
doers…
the pause comes from Vlastos bringing up the point,
that committing injustice, as I have dreamt,
is still injustice… even if it comes from a place of dismay
and anger that I feel… righting a wrong, as it were…
committing an injustice to stop, potentially stop,
an injustice from being committed…
where does that put me, morally?
does two wrongs make a right, as it has been said…
if I am wronged, does it morally allow me to act with
injustice and try for revenge? To right wrongs with
revenge is a very strong motive in human behavior…
but where do I stand morally in doing so?
Is it morally right to attempt revenge when
wronged?
But Kropotkin, these immoral acts of the IQ45 administration,
have not, NOT, directly impacted you… how have you been
wronged?
Unlike conservatives who only ask, ‘‘What is in it for me?’’
I ask, ‘‘What is in it for us?’’ the actions of IQ45 and his minions,
have clearly damaged our state, society and local communities…
Is that not cause enough to ponder revenge? In a court of law,
the bringing up this case of the damage to my community, as
being enough to bring about charges, would be denied,
due to the notion of ''not having standing"" or not being
directly affected by actions taken or not taken…
and yet, I hold that because my community has been damaged,
that is enough for me to bring about, as it were, charges…
I suggest that by looking at people and their actions within
a closed setting, actions affecting only themselves, does not
exists…I hold that private actions, do concern me because
those private actions impact the community… and I am
part of that community… so, a man beating his wife, does
impact me as it damages the community, and I am part of that
community…
As I have noted before, private actions/vices, do not lead
us to a public good, only by private actions/good, can lead
us to a public good… we are, whether we admit it or not,
we are part of a community and everything that impacts
the community, impacts us, personally, directly…
and in this vein, my own private desire to punish the
IQ45/Musk crowd, is just another act of injustice, even if,
even if, it is done for good, right reasons…
private revenge, is just another act of private vices that do
not lead us to any sort of public good…it is only by
private good, can we see a public good…
despite my overwhelming desire to punish Musk/IQ45…
it cannot lead us/me to any sort of public good…
the act of revenge, however satisfying it might be,
is simply the act of a private vice…
and fairly disappointing… I want my private revenge
for all those who have been damaged by the private/public
hate of Musk/IQ45…but my own desire only leads
to more private vices which cannot lead us to a public good…
Revenge, a primal human instinct, must be, reluctantly,
must be rejected…
One might argue that by revenge, we might find happiness
and as anyone who has read the Declaration of Independence
will tell you, one of the primary goals of human beings,
‘‘The pursuit of life, liberty and happiness’’
and however much desired, revenge will never bring about
happiness… for it is another example of injustice, and injustice,
cannot bring about happiness… and what does it say about
someone that injustice does bring about some sort of happiness?
it would take someone who lacks empathy… and that means
that might bring happiness to one who is a psychopath…
for those who lack empathy are psychopaths… and
those who are happy that others are being harmed,
by being deported or jailed, are lacking empathy,
thus, they are, on some sort of a scale, a psychopath…
on a scale, my own personal desire for revenge, is a lack
of empathy for those who are acting against the community…
just as they lack empathy for those they have harmed…
but Kropotkin, then how is justice to be enacted if
we have empathy for those who are directly
hurting the community? how am I to have empathy
for those like Musk, who have severely damaged America
and its communities by reducing Social Security,
or firing thousands from their jobs… or deporting even
those with a green card… meaning they are legal U.S
citizens…
so, the question becomes this, how do I/we stop
IQ45 and his minions from damaging America beyond
saving? and how do we act with justice, and not injustice?
and what would Justice, look like in this case?
One might say, by acting within the law, but those who are
damaging America are clearly disobeying the law, defying
judges who order the stopping of some deportations…
You can’t get much more lawless than disobeying judges orders…
Where do we find justice when the entire criminal system has
been compromised by a lawless administration like IQ45’s…
These questions will begin to loom larger and larger
as the IQ45 administration continues on its path to
destroy America… by destroying the institutions that
make America great like the Social Security and Justice
Department… for civilization depends on and demands
that a civilization has strong and developed civic institutions
like the IRS and the FBI and a strong educational system…
all of which IQ45 is trying to destroy, for a government
and a country to survive…
and watching IQ45 and Musk destroying America is enough
to lead one to contemplate acting with injustice…with revenge…
and as I like to say, now what? What should my own personal
response should be to the destruction of America and its values…
Nihilism: the negation of people and their values…
and that is exactly what conservatives and MAGA are doing,
negating people and their values… so, how do we respond
to the existing nihilism of the current administration?
and not acting with injustice?
Kropotkin
