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RE: Antithesis of Morality in the 21 Century

in #philosophy7 years ago (edited)

On one hand you have a civilized moral society with 21 century values, especially since the advent of the Internet, people are more connected, more empathetic than ever, more friendly. I mean if you just ask somebody on the streets, they will be glad to help you. So people are much much more empathetic than ever before. So on one hand you have a moral society with empathy.
I don't agree with you .
Since internet and everything relatively new like cars, electricity , etc.... we have never been so disconected from other people,
And the 21century values its a total invention. the humans help themselves since prehistory if they don't helped each others the Humanity would never have survived. And at the moment we have never been so individualistic.
If i can council you a good book about interaction between people, a book that everyone must read one time in his life and sooner the better is :
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Pierre Kropotkine

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Here is a detailed response, I am not talking about you in the article, but I am just debunking this flawed mindset, so don't get insulted, no offense is meant:

Are you sure about that, because there are 2 kinds of connections in a society:

  • Voluntary individualism - what we should aspire towards, each on it's own, but voluntary joining together if they want
  • Coercive families - which is what we had in the past, the father literally beat his kids into submission? Like is that a "strong family" values to you.

Beacause I think the "good old days" are very overlooked, the amount of violence in the past was exponentially higher, than what we have now, even with all the police brutality and things like that.

So we haven't been disconnected from eachother, we have just lost the coercive ties to eachother.

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