/lit/ - Literature

Blaming criminals for their actions is identical in logic to blaming a cat for eating a mouse.
Being an educated adult and desiring retribution or punishment (over rehabilitation) for criminals is nothing other than egotistical sadism.
No amount of complex behaviour will ever make humans more responsible for their actions than other animals.
Any opposing arguments are simply relics from a time when most people were so scared of reality that they would rely on mythology and magical thinking to understand themselves and the world around them.
Believing in an afterlife placated your evolutionary need for survival.
Judging ourselves to be good and others to be bad satisfies your violent animal urges and makes you feel as if your life has some sort of weird symbolic 'meaning'.
It has no base in reality.

No one wants to be impoverished, mentally ill or socially maladjusted.
Lives are inherited.
People who have comfortable lives will naturally disagree, in order to feel special and important, but that's just based on insecurity.
Nothing is impressive anymore.
Achievement is merely the product of opportunity, education, money, time and effort.
The people who have those things didn't earn them and everyone knows it.
Bears don't earn the salmon when they find them in the stream.
Starving deer don't deserve to die when they're stuck out in the desert.
We don't need fiction to make sense of the world anymore.
We don't need condescending awards and entry into creepy grand narratives offered to us as incentives for peaceful and productive behaviour.
Don't cling to delusions that flatter your ego.