/lit/ - Literature

the human condition
1. all people act to benefit themselves
2. benefiting yourself is achieving or increasing the likelyhood of
desire is wanting, wanting is desiring, values are the object of our desires or perhaps the guiding principle of our wanting or perhaps the wanting itself
1. wants are prior to needs
2. needs are only an expression of our own weakness, they are and do occur due to the complement of our personal ability in relation to our desires
you want to live, this is a temporal desire; you want to continue to live
you can not simply live based on your own ability, you can not simply continue to live only through yourself so your living is conditional
it can thus bee seen that this inadequacy creates needs, certain conditionals that must be for your desires to be fulfilled - you must procure air, food, water and shelter - and in this way needs are an expression of your weakness, the fact that you cannot consist of yourself through yourself, and the need exists as the result of your inability in relation to a specific desire
the relation with this specific desire is of chief importance. if you do not want to live, do you then need to breath/eat/drink? no, in fact you would need to bring these activities to a halt to fulfil your desire - your own death
1. all desires, values and purposes can only be seen from the frame of reference of a subject
2. a subject is either that which can experience qualia or the qualia occurring/being itself
3. morality is the threat of violence for detriment to the values of the more powerful, inherently social, the approval of benefit
4. violence is detriment caused by one subject upon another
5. friendship/love/cooperation is benefit caused by one subject upon another
the categorical imperative is the greatest piece of satire given to us by one of the worlds foremost geniuses. the awkwardness inherent to morality as the individual no longer benefits from appeasing the majority is given full recognition and the values of the majority are taken to be the absolute in a scenario where the individual will not accept or want to accept the values of the majority and thus will denounce such a system. At heart everyone is selfish, appeasing the majority/being moral is selfishness that recognises its own inability, the inability to combat and ward off the violence of a majority/an other OR the need for an other, however when one cannot possibly benefit from appeasing and perhaps are being at the same time detrimented(for to act without benefit surely is a detriment) they will dissent. The individual has to in all situations where there is a possibility of benefit and detriment perform an analysis on the situation that ensures the best case for themselves.

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