“Sympathy” vs self-interest
The same kind of nitwit thinking that gets you by on a daily basis with your retarded children and you dead-end repetitive job, is not really the kind of thinking that you should apply to matters of state or policy. This is why having a conversation about politics with a moron is so annoying and pointless.
Let me give you an example that I came across today:
Person 1 got arrested for doing something that is arguably wrong and tells person 2. There follows a conversation that can be summed up like this:
Person 1: That’s a gross violation of my civil rights!
Person 2 (the moron): Well, I have no sympathy for you if you put yourself in that situation!
Sympathy. This reasoning is applied across a wide spectrum of complaints. The arrest and deportation of legal and illegal immigrants, the harassment of minorities by the police, the harassment of environmental protesters by various arms of the government. A few years back it was applied by some Conservatives in defense of the harassment of legal east Indian immigrants in the wake of 9/11. The fact that they wore turbans and thus might be mistaken for Arabs justified retarded rednecks harassing them.
I love the fact that they view rights and freedoms as dispensations that they as citizens are allowed to “bestow” upon whoever pleases them. Bestow in the sense of having a favorable but irrelevant opinion of it. Like the “good” immigrants, meaning people from Europe and submissive Asian women imported to take care of old and aging rednecks in the rural south under the guise of marriage.
“Sympathy” should have nothing to do with how you view somebody’s rights. The more rational person sees everybody else’s rights as an extension of their own, meaning that if somebody else can get fucked because of their skin-color or ethnicity, then the possibility exists for me to get fucked some equally invalid reason. That’s it, common-sense self-interest. Pure selfishness is how you make a society better.
Note who these people tend to be though, the bigots and the people who hold dissenters in contempt, they tend to be Conservatives, hypocritical Christians, people who claim to be guided something other than logic. They claim a religion of kindness and humility and selflessness. The enlightened self-interest that I am talking about does not fit into their supposed motives for doing anything.
