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10336532 No.10336532 [Reply] [Original]

Do the ends ever justify the means?

>> No.10336769

>>10336532
ax is facing the wrong way

>> No.10336776

>>10336769
He's just giving her a good bludgeoning is all.

>> No.10336794

>>10336769
It's symbolic for how Raskolnikov is morally stabbing himself in the back.

>> No.10336834

Depends on the ends, the means and your ethical framework

>> No.10336838

>>10336769
>Wanting to cut open an old lady and spread blood all over your clothes instead of thumping her in the temple

>> No.10336861

Yes. Getting good grades justifies studying, for example.

>> No.10336870

implying there will ever be an end

>> No.10336871

>>10336532

Shooting capitalists to bring in communism will.

>> No.10336873

>>10336794

This.

>> No.10336876

>>10336769

No. It's common to strike with the back end.

>> No.10336880

Not inherently.

>> No.10336989
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>>10336871
>He thinks shooting capitalists will bring in communism

>> No.10337018

>>10336871
>communist
You have to be 18 years old to use this site.

>> No.10337027

>>10336532
A parasite grows too cunning, too powerful; dominates its host completely. The host grows too weak, perishes to the horizons of extinction.
The host ignores something minor. The host notices the error far too late, it didn't know of this development among its enemy. It ignored, it was lazy, it was weak.

Then they both meet karma, as is the end and the justification for their actions.

>> No.10337035

>>10337027

wtf are you talking about lol

>> No.10337039

>>10337035
Actions and developments have consequences. Karma is a truism.

>> No.10337042

>>10336532
>Do the ends ever justify the means?

that's not what the book is about though

>> No.10337066

>>10337039

sure but whether or not someone acquires karmic debt for an action doesn't seem to answer this question even remotely.

like if a man kills a soon-to-be murderer before he murders ten people, the question isn't "is that man going to face consequences or acquire karmic debt;" the question is whether or not the end (saving ten people) was justified by the means (killing one).

>> No.10337089

>>10337066
he's a white supremacist and its an allegory for Jews and Whyte people. you fucking idiot liberal faggot

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>>10336532
I don't know you tell me

>> No.10337114

Raskolnikov is just a /lit/ user who got too full of himself.

>> No.10337118

>>10337089
It's the answer I got when asking God why He lets Kikes live.

It's true for practically all parasites and hosts.
There is another path a parasite can take, as there is another path for the host.

The parasite can make itself useful, turning the relationship symbiotic or beneficial; this is the case with our stomach bacteria and specialized cells in general. Whereas the host can exterminate the parasite and gain freedom from it.

I don't see that path available for Jews, but I do see it for other parasites.

>> No.10337129

>>10337066
>sure but whether or not someone acquires karmic debt for an action doesn't seem to answer this question even remotely.
The action is justified (it can happen) by the fact that all evil will remove itself by its own rules. If it keeps itself balanced in so far as to not change anything major, it is a test for the victim instead. The failings of the victim therefore justify the evil.

>> No.10337134

>>10337118
>It's the answer I got when asking God
fake and gay
>why I think Kikes live.
fixed
>It's true for practically all parasites and hosts.
There is another path a parasite can take, as there is another path for the host.

The parasite can make itself useful, turning the relationship symbiotic or beneficial; this is the case with our stomach bacteria and specialized cells in general. Whereas the host can exterminate the parasite and gain freedom from it.
those wouldn't be parasites idiot
>I don't see that path available for Jews, but I do see it for other parasites.
right because you're a biological racist disguising it with religion and are basically a psychopath and genocidal minded. So a subhuman ape

>> No.10337138

>>10337134
>those wouldn't be parasites idiot
That's the point. Around 20% of our genome is from viruses.

>> No.10337140

>>10337089

ok, relax dude.

i was/am treating op's question like a general philosophical question, not like one in the context you're mentioning.

even so, all it seems like you've done is describe the facts of a situation or system as you see it, rather than evaluate the moral quality of an action taken.

in other words, what you've said is something like "both parties did something; both faced consequences," when it seems like the question op's asking calls for an evaluation more like "this party did something immoral, but it was to achieve a good end, so that makes the action morally permissable."

>> No.10337149

>>10337129

thanks for clarifying what he was saying. i've never. seen a systematic approach like this to op's question. interesting.

>> No.10337163

>>10337134
>right because you're a biological racist
Biology is racist. Blacks can't swim well, for example. It's genetic, it is evolution, it isn't evil - merely the effects of generations of choices.
>disguising it with religion
No. Explaining religious dilemma (the existence of kikes) with truth. The jew can only feed on our sins; be it porn, usury or useless wars.
>and are basically a psychopath
Aren't you? http://archive.is/qMDqo
> and genocidal minded.
How do you think we got rid of the mosquitoes? We drain the swamps. If the parasite perishes due to us not sinning, how is it genocide?
>So a subhuman ape
This is what you kikes believe us to be anyway. I believe you are slaves to Mammon, and do its deeds on Earth.

>> No.10337170

holy shit i knew /lit/ was getting weird but what the shit you racist dicks

>> No.10337173

>>10337170
Can you really spit on generations of hard work like that? What a disgusting creature you are.

>> No.10337194

>>10337170
don't let the two /pol/autists get to you man

>> No.10337199

>>10337194
It's a woman.
>Servantile attitude towards [whoever is in power]
>Shaming tactics, ad hominem
>Thinking they are important among the anonymous

>> No.10337506

>>10337163
People who unironically think like this belong to a mental asylum.

>lechristian
>the joos ruin everything
>war, oh cruel world
>exploitation, jeebus clingus sabe mi
>surely the joos
>yes
>not my dumbass spreading hate
>the J O O S mom listen to me

>> No.10337542

>>10337506
Not surprising that you offer the same solution as the USSR for this.

>> No.10337555

>>10337506
Kvetch for me, love!
http://archive.is/gqShr

>> No.10337556

>>10337542
I was going to seriously refute you but then I realized that I’d be fine with sending willfully ignorant fucktards go gulags.

I guess the fashy vibes of poltards rubbed off on me, huh

>> No.10337563

>>10337556
>I realized that I’d be fine with sending willfully ignorant fucktards go gulags.
Does that include you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPGQ-iB7mcY

>> No.10337587
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10337587

>C&P thread instantly turned to shit

>> No.10337662

>>10336532
I really wish there was more art of famous literature.

>> No.10337818

>>10337163
Biology is racist to blacks by making them dumb. The swimming thing is kind of peripheral.

>> No.10338087

>>10337818
Neither the median nor the average complete a whole. I don't think there is a single good swimmer among blacks, but there are smart individuals - they are just far more rare than with other races. This has to do with their aversion of work; for generations, they have avoided labor, physical and mental. This shows. If they selected their hierarchy based on labor and achievements, the sexual selection would prefer smarter individuals over fancier. Not telling them this is sabotaging their evolution for social points.

>> No.10338284

>>10336532
The ends are all that matter. The means don't need justification.

>> No.10338290

>>10336532
sometimes. it depends on the means and the ends.

>> No.10338323

>>10337035
if you haven't read the book that OP's picture is from the old woman was a jew who performed "usury", the main character in the book killed her because he justified it with his morality saying he would use it for good and that she accrued her riches through evil actions and she wont use it anyway. Figure the rest out, sometimes jews are called ... what?

>> No.10338548

>>10336769
Did you read the book?

>> No.10338592

>>10337818
Why the fuck is this board so fucking racist and shitty lately? I just want to talk about philosophy and books, not all this modern race shit. take that to /pol/

>> No.10339245

>>10336532
do the means ever justify the end?

>> No.10339311

>>10337018
when i was in 3rd grade i thought commies were the shit

>> No.10339315

It depends on the context, sometimes killing for the greater good is totally ethical.
>>10336871
Thats not how dialectical materialism works
>>10337018
>muh gommunism doesnt work

>> No.10339330

>>10336532
this is the most dogshit c&p thread i have seen yet

>> No.10339738

>>10339315
Your greater good means a bleak, ugly and wasted environment where people starve ad wait in lines for food - as much as the bureaucrats deemed necessary for you.
You do not see a conflict in here, for you are a fool.

>> No.10339773

Raskolnikov had no ends, if he actually had such a grandiose motivation he would be a hero

>> No.10339823

>>10339738

>muh anti-communist propaganda

>> No.10339826

>>10339823
Eastern Europe is not propaganda.

>> No.10339839

>>10339826

But the bullshit that happens to every nation is when you say it only has happened to one.

>> No.10339841

>>10338548
Where do you think we are?

>> No.10339849

>>10337114
Raskolnikov is Bazarov explored more thoroughly.

>> No.10339851

>>10339839
I've never seen a beautiful communist country. It's always cement cube spam. Even grass avoided those cities (mold didn't). Both Chinese and Eastern European buildings are prone to fall decades earlier than expected.

>> No.10339856

>>10339851

You've never even seen a communist country.

>inb4 memes

>> No.10339863

>>10339856
I've been to former countries, and I've seen quite a bit of material.

>> No.10339869

>>10339863

You haven't since communism has yet to be achieved. Please, refer to it appropriately.

>> No.10339878

>>10339869
>You haven't since communism has yet to be achieved
So did the "end" of achieving communism justify attempting it in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Asia?

>> No.10339885

>>10339878

It would have. Everything has trouble. Saying that "communism" causes people to starve is a bit disingenuous/

>> No.10339890

>>10339869
How can i have seen anti-communist propaganda, if there is nothing to base it on? Why was it bad for me to criticize the policies in those countries, if it wasn't communism?

>> No.10339893

>>10339885
It's justifying horrid actions for the greater good that leads there. Aka, what you are attempting to do.
In truth, communism (and all materialist utopias) has been tried, and it looks like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

>> No.10340777

>>10339330
That’s what you get for allowing jewposting retards on lit

>> No.10340785

>>10339851
What is Budapest you dickmuncher

Inb4 blockbuildings in parts where mostly the truly pleb live

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>>10337101

>> No.10340822

>>10336861
>studying for grades
The absolute state of /lit/.

>> No.10340826

>>10340785
Yes, who could forget all those beautiful buildings built by the commie regime.

>> No.10340833

>>10340826

>What is Stalinist Architecture?

>> No.10340842

>>10340822
>studying at all
the absolute state of humans

>> No.10340852

>>10340833
> few buildings redeem an entire city

>> No.10340862

>>10340822
This.

>> No.10340877

>>10339893
Cuba is doing well in many aspects, even though America has an immoral economic embargo on it which continues to this day, even though it is condemned by literally all countries in the world except for US and Israel on its yearly UN security resolution.

Communism did amazingly well in Cuba considering they weren't allowed to trade with america.

And yes I do know they get aid from Russia before you raise that point.

>> No.10340887

>>10336532
that meme nose on the old lady

>> No.10340895

>>10336871
>>10336989
the utopia is always one more murder away, comrade, why do you hate the people?

>> No.10340899

Of course, and nobody denies this. Our whole society is built upon using means that are not noble in themselves in order to uphold some kind of order.
And almost anyone who think the upholding of our current society is not a noble mean will defend using force to overcome it.

>> No.10340901

>>10339773
he just wanted to escape NEEThood

>> No.10341063

>>10337170
The assumption that racism is the ultimate evil is a relatively modern conception, one completely out of line with nature.

>> No.10341436

>>10340877
>Cuba is doing well in many aspects
Well, then it isn't doing communism right.

Regarding embargoes, Autocratic Spain and Russia (2001-2013) did well economically as well, without those embargoes. Same might be true for North Korea.

>> No.10341439

>>10340822
t. undergrad

>> No.10341450

>>10336532
>Do the ends ever justify the means?

NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES
>NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES
NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES
>NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES
NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES
>NOT LITERATURE, DUMMIES

>> No.10341460

>>10341439
post-grad actually

>> No.10341465

>>10341460
t. english lit grad

>> No.10341468

>>10341465
physics actually

>> No.10341481

The end is defined by the means. Look up Ends and Means: an inquiry into the nature of ideals by Huxley. I think it got re edited a few years ago.

>> No.10341570

>>10339841
Did you just quote Scrubs to me you fuck?

>> No.10341577

Razumikhin is the one and only hero of the book. Raskolnikov is a whiny faggot

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>>10341063
>out of line with nature

>> No.10341584

>>10336532
Well, baking a cake might be boring but eating one is nice, so sure.

>> No.10341591

>>10340895
marx isn't a utopian though

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>>10341577
dont forget Dunya tho

>> No.10341755

>>10341731
dunya is an edgy shitgirl stacy playing the martyr

svigralidov is the real hero

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>>10341755
real hero or an hero

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>>10337101

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>>10341760
fuck you

>> No.10341800
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10341800

No. But in some instances, the ethical considerations may be suspended altogether in pursuit of a higher purpose.

>> No.10341969

>>10341436
>it isn't doing communism right
and you're no true scotsman either

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>>10341468
>Physics major

>> No.10342853

>>10340895
Honestly the marxist utopia seems kind of spooky to me

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>>10336871
XD comrade! The kulaks deserved it! The left CAN meme! Good to see another comrade of r/communism in this alt-reich, drumpf-worshiping, paid Russian trolling website. Fully automated luxury gay space communism! Sieze the memes of production! There is a spectre haunting /lit/; the spectre of dank communist memes! Take my upvote, good Sir!

>> No.10344107

>>10343568

Don't reply to me ever again.

>> No.10344135

Of course, that is why most villains and with "well i would have made the world a perfect place if not for x, y, z... to infinity". Overall blindly following your limited model of understanding instead of constantly adapting to the unknown is a great way to live wholesome life.

>> No.10344188

>>10336532
>Do the ends ever justify the means?
No never.

>> No.10344320

>>10341591
oh but he still somehow despite all his efforts manages to be one.

>> No.10344450

>>10337129
>by the fact that all evil will remove itself by its own rules.
Can you expand on this please?

>> No.10344495

>>10344450
Bread and circus, barbarian hordes, Soviet Union, Napoleon, revolutions, equality... Is this not apparent to you? Does the mere mention of these things not bring to you their rise and fall? Their goals and their success?

If a guardsman leaves his post, and an enemy comes; what happens? If you kill your offspring, what will happen to you? What happened to Robespierre when the masses realized he had a head too? He got a dose of equality! To be headless like the masses and the king! Henceforth we have been ruled by mere desires, not heads. Industries of all kinds feed on our desires, and we keep feeding them.

>> No.10346123

no

>> No.10346329

>>10341800
I like this answer

>> No.10347510

Presuming the ends are contained in the means itself so as to bring their causation is equivalent to presuming the ends are independent events that have a conditional relationship to the independent means.

There is a third position that neither depends on each other and each should justify itself. A contingent but ultimately being from nothing that is attributed it's lack of inherent meaning with a confrontation.

Each being events in themselves to have their essence of nothingness in tact. And only occuring to the virtue of character and medium that allows them to manifest in actuality.

>> No.10348361

>Tried to read Crime and Punishment
>I have a strange inability to remember foreign names
>100 pages in Grogsnolotovnaski and Grogspolotovnaski are having a heated debate over current russian fashion and the author decides to not credit each quotation so I have no idea who is speaking

This is why I bought a kindle. Nobody fucking told me it keeps track of names for you. Now I dont need to keep fucking notes.

>> No.10348429

>>10348361
man I'm glad I'll never be this stupid
you're incapable of understanding great literature and that's a very sad thing

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>>10343568

>> No.10349454

>>10336532
depends on the ends and the means

>> No.10349462

Yes, for example, I am a cuckold, but I am also a white nationalist. I believe that whites have contributed more to humanity than any other race, space travel, anti—biotics the list goes on. But when it comes down to it, blacks are just better at fucking. Theres no shame in admitting this. There is no shame in admitting that despite the infinite intellectual and moral superiority of the white race, black cock is just better at pleasing women.

The reason white women are turning from the cause and running to niggers is simply because they are not being sexually satisfied. Can you blame them? If you dont get enough to eat at home youre going to go out to eat. The only way to save the white race from miscegenation is cuckolding. My pure white wife is my angel, the apple of my eye. And I want nothing but the best for her. So every friday she gets to have her fill of big black cock. And our relationship goes on like normal. We love each other, and plan on having a child soon. She also shares my red pilled beliefs.

Monogamy is a tool of the jew. Just give it a chance once. Its exhilarating. Theres something deeply majestic about watching a toned muscular black stud going in and out of a beautiful white woman. Try it once.