Continuation of “A Conversation: Love And Hate”
https://madmanphilosophy.home.blog/2020/05/21/a-conversation-love-and-hate/
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I think it’s one thing when someone expresses remorse, because I am able to connect to their humanity a little easier, but with those that don’t have any remorse for whatever they’ve done it’s a lot harder.
This is going to get a little bit away from the philosophy I’m more certain about, but I’ll try to explain my feelings towards people who lack remorse and empathy.
I said that a person has three aspects: physical, mental, and spiritual. Difficulty feeling remorse points towards a weak or damaged spirit. But a complete lack of empathy means they have no spirit. And someone without a spirit isn’t a person, but an animal or a monster.
A spirit can be destroyed through trauma, but what’s difficult is when people are born without a spirit. These people would be sociopaths/psychpaths. They’re closer to robots than people, because they can think like us and take up space like us, but they can’t feel like us.
If I’m being honest, I don’t know how to feel about this, what I should do, or how I should respond to this. I can help someone repair their spirit, but only something greater than us can birth a spirit. I think that’s where the idea of religion and God comes from.
Oh, interesting.. so you would argue that people can actually be born without a spirit?
That’s the part I’m least sure about. I don’t want to believe it, but sometimes the world gives us someone so evil that I start to question everything.
Yeah, that’s fair. I guess in some ways its easier to believe that’s the case.
At the very least, people are born with different “sized” spirits.
Or maybe a better explanation is that we’re born with a seed of a spirit. If it never grows, can we still call a seed a plant?
I like the seed analogy. That makes the most sense in my head.
Same actually.
I’m glad you’re asking these questions, because this is something I’ve been struggling with, and I’m explaining it to myself as much as I am to you.
They do say the best way to learn something is to teach it!
If there’s anything I’m good at it’s asking questions
That’s a really good trait to have. Too many people just accept what they’re told, or pretend to know more than they do.
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Discussion continued in “A Conversation Continued : Asking Questions And Schooling”
https://madmanphilosophy.home.blog/2020/05/21/a-conversation-asking-questions-and-schooling/
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