/lit/ - Literature

It's not that I think it's bad, but I believe The Fall and The Plague are much more engaging and better written.

>>17271557
Also read it during my teenage existentialist phase and got filtered hard.
Then ten years later I read In the Penal Colony and holy shit, I was flabbergasted at how brutal and confusing this short story is, it was so awesome.
During the lockdown I finally read The Trial and found the combination of permeating social autism and surrealism really fun.
I think what got me around liking Kafka is that I have a boring corporate job now, his themes feel much more real to me now. That, and understanding that he is hard to translate in the two languages I can read (English and French).

>>6904130
It's the ambiguity of morality that makes the concept of morality objective. Take quantum physics; it's characterized by being scattered, but in being so, being 'undefined' IS it's inherent definition. I'm afraid this is the only way morality can be taken objectively.

Marla wears a dress and doesn't think about whether she like it or not.
Betty abhors the dress and calls it hideous, while Joe likes it and complements her on it (they bang later).

You can try to square away morality into gut reactions, that it's something primal >>6904166
Or say it's ordained by God >>6904221

But that does not scrub away how unique morality is to each individual, or even draw a clear line between morality and preference.

Inb4 assuming that a child is born pure, and that at that instance, morality is objective, is absurd; what's going on in a baby's head at that age has as much a moral compass as a miss firing circuit board. Morality is reserved for what we, as adults, would call 'free will' >>6905830 the power to 'choose' one keyboard key as opposed to another.

To standardize morality is to standardize fashion, and the furthest you're going to get is "Some people like to dress colorful, some people dress dull, and some people don't like to wear anything at all."

Morality is objectively subjective.

>>5180132
Yeah, ass goblins are nothing like that. But really, those bizarro writers should use something more bizarre for their covers and not just realistic depictions of their asinine ideas.

>>5042280
>>5042297
No worse than this one