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Now, taking into account Dawning Utilitarian math of Maximizing Pleasure and Decreasing Pain, Richard Dawkins has been living a life exactly opposite of his stated beliefs, he lives with constant Foot in Mouth Syndrome, FMS for short.
Whenever he gets a bright idea, and opens his mouth, both religious and atheists bond together and hound him. Richard Dawkins is living a lifestyle counter opposite to his stated beliefs of seeking a life where he can maximize pleasure and decrease pain… unless he is interpreting this formula through de Sade’s philosophy.
So… from a BioEthics position, if he can say it’s better of the welfare if a child with down syndrome to murder them (something tarded with that logic), let’s build on it.
Lets say this website was a real community. Only Human, Magsj would be thugs dressed in black, randomly attacking people in restaurants or on the street, telling us at seeming random to shut the fuck up, or tasing us, or beating us unconscious and dragging us away, often times without reasonable cause or provacation… just the crazy little hamster in their heads got turning, and they went on impulse, little thought about consequences on the ability to debate and willingness of others to contribute in the long term.
A Tad bit psychotic, definitely lacking ethics, always shocked to discover when people don’t agree with them. Whats the larger excuse given though? Somehow, this molestation of the forum decreases pain, maximizes the good (for whom?).
So, should we bring the moderator function mainstream? I believe Bioethics can apply to society, as society is composed of biological components. In India for a long time until recently, police were given authority to form special assassination units, aimed not at assets, but rather the identification and targeting of mobsters. It was a highly successful unit, what brought it down in the end wasn’t it’s successful kill rate, but allegations mobsters bribed them to focus on other Mafia factions, leaving theirs alone.
Lets say we calmed it down a bit, and took psychopaths like Only Humean and Magsj, gave them stun grenades and taser batons, and freedom to roam society, targeting philosophers, who in their view had perpetual FMS, causing more pain than pleasure to society, as well as even to themselves. Obviously, Richard Dawkings has to feel pretty glum about the deeply negative reactions he experiences at times, and spends alot of time staring out his window on rainy days, face pressed against the glass, wushing people woukd like him more… or at least he did before people saw him doing that and started flipping him off and throwing rocks at his stupid face. So instead he likely now just sits a few feet away from the window, staring, unable to even feel the gloomy sensations and reflect properly anymore, just sitting with whisky bittle in hand.
If we adopt Only Humean’s role to the larger world at large, guys like Richard Dawkings wouldn’t have to suffer any more. They can just randomly attack Dawkings (and people like him, whatever that means, completely up to their internal interpretations) with taser batons, striking angry, ignorant blows of justice at the offender, all in a effirt to make the world right and orderly, for the smug satisfaction and benefit of people who hate Dawkings and similar offenders, but are too meek to say something about it openly.
Only Humean can assult him inpublic parks. Magsj can when he is taking to a friend on a street corner. They can join together during press conferences, or one on one debates, and randomly pop up behind him with chloroform, telling the audience and other debater they didn’t approve of him, tough shit about the discussion, Dawkings has to go night night for a bit. They can also forceably remove the discussion at gunpoint from university lecture halls to seedy strip clubs and abandoned warehouses in Skid Row, where homeless drug users about, out of sight from everyone in the university, cause they feel like it… with the flimsiest of justification.
I do believe it’s quite possible to adapt such a system, and it’s not irrational to apply the theory of utilitarian pain avoidance with harsh, irrational legal codes that only the policing force is allowed to interprets and enforce without check of power. Many societies already practice this on this very platform:
Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
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The promotion of virtue is the promotion of pleasure, and the prevention of vice is the prevention of pain, in terms of the long term view. In Saudi Arabia, they are the most liberal, utilitarian force not only in the country, but perhaps the planet, only recently rivaled by ISIS’ squads of roving clerics dispensing religious justice, and of course, the moderation here at www.Ilovephilosophy.com
They will get up into your business for seemingly no fucking reason, saying bizarre shit like “it’s unislamic to have cats”, “it is unislamic to build snowmen”… and they will fine and beat you, if not haul your ass off to jail for it. They LOVE capital punishment in that country.
So… is the Mutaween… asshole police force with no apparently viable check to their power, a force we can universally apply across philosophy?
I believe so. It works in some countries already, so it’s not theoretic. Its a real system, policing the fuck out of ideas and actions with the same level of insight as is used by forum moderators here. The constant public backlashes against guys like Richard Dawkins make it evident that neither he nor they are conforming to Richard Dawkins Utilitarian Principles. This is change we can believe in.
Now, for those of you who are like "Oh no, this is a terrible idea, we need a system of checks and powers, accountability, a place to lodge complaints, etc… that’s just faggot talk, and your losing sight of the bigger picture.
You see, there us accountability. They are not immoral, anyone can go to the Mutawen’s chief, or his boss even, and lodge complaints, just like we can with Carleas here. You can be assured of the same dead end response as well, of black ignorant sneers and faulty logic, run abouts and a poorly disguised fuck you, where the priority is always to reassure the bewildered Mutaween that that “their feelings matter more” and the government always… ALWAYS, will back them no matter how outrageous or absurd the stunt they just pulled was. Because you know, if the Mutaween can’t function freely, what happens then? The chaos of free association? Educational opportunities outside the mainstream arising? Increased Sufferage instead if Suffering. People running around with bayonets, trying to elect their own leaders! Fuck no, we can’t have that kind of Enlightenment shit, here or in Saudi Arabia, or in ISIS. Besides, the Mutaween has plenty of defenders, mostly people who get crushed in discussions with guys like Dawkings, afraid to ever leave their house or forum thread, keeping as low a profile as possible.
No way in hell can we tolerate such people here on this forum… the Help and Suggestions section is full of Carleas making it very clear, the Mutaween is perfect, beyond reproach, and matters more to him than the posters. Dawkings and others are clearly hurting themselves, and society at large… is it time for society at large in the west to adopt despotic, cruel middle eastern/ www.ilovephilosophy.com practices across the board on philosophers, or anyone who stands out and pisses our moderators off at any given moment.
It is a legitimate question of statecraft, since such societies already exist on the nation state level, and it’s already in practice on the forum. Guts like Smears will step forward, pupils dialated “We need the Mutaween to fuck us over and give us order, being allowed to think and say any idea, no… that’s anarchism. We need coercive, repressive measures undermining a free society.”
I personally am opposed to it, but it seems to be the direction we are heading in. Is it time for it to become the law of the land.