Well, let’s ‘sacrifice’ those too. No… seriously, it’s really not about killing. The idea is to have a race of slaves to prop those who are ‘superior’, and I guess their beliefs would not be the main criterion (it’s not about ideology either). Sacrifice here means that these people are expendable with a view to a greater good. In some economics perspective we could call that ‘operational costs’, or even ‘investment’, though the victims will by no means reap the benefits.
I am not trying to make it any more palatable than it sounds, but whoever has even a modest experience in some working environment, can see that large organisations do have these expendable members. Obviously, they need not to die, but neither need they in N.’s plan (but if that happens… well, no big deal). And as for ‘dragging the strong’, as soon as there is some predicament, let’s call that ‘crisis’, those people are ditched.
I guess this is nothing you haven’t seen in your lifetime.
Then, no, it’s not about an afterlife, it’s about a comeback. More of the same, no qualitative difference. And, please, consider that in N.’s view individuals are by no means what people mean by the word. The only ‘reality’ would be the ER itself.
Actually, I am kind of oversimplifying here, there are some private notes where the man considered how much a belief in the ER would affect people’s life-view, the ramifications this core belief would spread. In a way, if you focus just on the process, that would be analogous to the destruction triggered by the death of God, but unlike that in a life-affirming sense.
This is interesting and I have no simple, quick answer to that.
As a tentative answer, let’s say that victory is what feels like it and one would know how much that is ‘real’.
At the end of the day, your questions can be said to be ‘the truth’. But, then, you may also want to question the value of truth itself.
@Meno_
Man, you pack a lot of stuff in there. I have to confess that I could not grasp all that you wrote. I guess that when you point out that, in fact, this mass of servants exists already, and it’s not some deranged fairy tale, we agree. And, yes, the white lie of some kingdom of justice awaiting it is what helps them to carry on. Although, let’s be frank, a lot of people do not really believe that. They just content themselves with thinking that they are ‘decent’. And, honestly, I guess we all do that, if only for some time.