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[Anonymous No.7291113]

Why is it that we humans feel moral outrage?

Is there a way to remove that feeling without accepting the cause?

[Anonymous No.7291118]

If the probability that the cause happened is 100%, then it needed to happen. Things that needed to happen were necessary. Accept all causes, you historical revisionist.

[Anonymous No.7291131]

>>7291113
>moral outrage
That feeling is just you feeling threatened by someone displaying potentially dangerous behaviour. When you realize that your moral outrage is little different from your fear of drowning, it's easier to put in perspective.

[Anonymous No.7291145]

>>7291131
moral outrage has the benefit/risk of creating social expectations, and therefore shaping the world.

Is the moral outrage justified or sensible? It is more often than the fear of drowning is.

[Anonymous No.7291176]

Oh man lmaoing @ this thread

>I watched a couple gore videos maaan morality... Is an illusion

[Anonymous No.7291191]

>>7291176
>fear of drowning is an illusion
huh. You seem fixated on catching out fools more than actually finding wisdom.

[Anonymous No.7291215]

absolutely

strong feelings almost always detract from clean thinking and practical, calculated approaches to problems.

often there is absolutely nothing constructive we can do, and it only adds to the mess for us to be hysterical

sometimes there is something we can do, and it only prevents us from properly doing it if we are hysterical

[Anonymous No.7291224]

>>7291215
>>7291191

>being this much of a left brain shill

[Anonymous No.7291236]

>>7291224

it's not even funny anon, quit beating the dead horse 0/10

[Anonymous No.7291369]

>tfw you viscerally hate everyone on any entertainment website you visit
>tfw you can't leave them without isolating yourself
>tfw you have to ask people you hate how to stop hating them without becoming anything like them
>tfw you realize that the fact that you have that hatred makes it a lost cause

[Anonymous No.7291382]

>>7291113
How is it called when you don't feel "moral outrage"?

[Anonymous No.7291405]

>>7291382
I'm not sure if there is a word for that. Maybe you just don't give a fuck

[Anonymous No.7291416]

>>7291113
Given how strongly moral outrage and visceral disgust correlate with authoritarianism, we probably feel these things so that we have commonalities with which we can form groups.

[Anonymous No.7291418]

>>7291405
I recently learned a new expression: moral nihilism. This pretty much describes how I feel about appeals to morality. Since nothing can be considered intrinsically good or bad, moral arguments a merely a way to hide your own selfishness.

[Anonymous No.7291464]

>>7291418
The moral "outrage" you see today is actually a manifestation of moral nihilism. For one, it isn't actually outrage, it's power plays and careerism. There might be a lot of yelling, but the person doing the yelling will not seem bothered in their personal life, as someone who is truly outraged would.

And just as the outrage is a farce, the moral principles that the outrage is based on are fickle and change according to need ("who do we need to shame?"), rather then being first principles.

[Anonymous No.7291585]

>tfw never feel moral outrage anymore
some regime could literally start a pointless genocide for absolutely no reason and i would probably feel more strongly over mook tampering with my chinese cartoon porn boards

[Anonymous No.7291632]

>>7291585


I think honestly that's a healthier outlook, few things are more obscene than 'telescopic philanthropy'.

[Anonymous No.7291645]

>>7291632
I tend to agree

probably has something to do with growing up in sweden, it being pretty much the philantropic observatory