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Originally Posted by Lune
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Nah that's what I said-- we sublimate what is natural (and chaotic, efficient) into what is man-made (and ordered, entropically unfavorable). In other words, reason over feelings.
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I was referring to this,
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But the thing about humans is that we have ethics and morals and we know when to sublimate productivity and the cruelty of nature for pleasure and quality of life.
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You are suggesting then that man is inherently destructive and applies reason to surpress cruel inclinations. I think that makes perfect sense and expresses my view of the nature of man. Being overly empathic however, I was looking at it from the perspective that we posses the ability to surpress irrational feelings of compassion, guilt, shame to do what is needed. Two sides of the same coin, leading to seemingly different conclusions ^^