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one of those things that follows naturally from my current philosophical bent that feels a bit too spicy to outright say is that basically every form of deviation from the norm has to exist, and the spiciness comes in the examples like, for example, the world needs insane people
and that's easy to stomach if you assume i mean people who are “a little bit insane” but i do also mean whatever the most uncomfortable kind of insanity you can imagine is. i think you can't eliminate that from this world without upsetting the balance of all things
the normie version of this take is that without adhd autist depressed schizos you don't get any cool art and that's entirely correct but it goes way, way, way deeper than that
what's messing with me is i'm genuinely not sure how radical a belief this is, because i think this is an underlying part of a lot of normie belief systems, they just can't actually bring themselves to say it. like… Christians believe murder should exist, OBVIOUSLY, and yet
like Christianity's view of the world (which i must add i feel very qualified to comment on because i grew up a genuine believer and later lost my faith and became an apostate) requires, even loves, the existence of all the things it claims to decry. they're horny for Satan
at the same time though there's a lot of people who, if given the chance to press a button that would make insane people disappear from the world forever, actually would, and spend a lot of time arguing with others about where the threshold should be, and they deeply terrify me
@hikari I mean to me it sounds like that's just eugenics. So with that in mind I think you advocating for the most insane people to exist isn't radical at all. Or shouldn't be, at least.
@KurisuVanEdge yes, but consider that there are many people who would not consider it eugenics if the nature of the world itself could be changed such that no death was required to accomplish this end
@hikari Yeah I get that, but that's why I added it "shouldn't be radical".
In my opinion Link still committed genocide on Koholint Island by waking up, even if he didn't "kill" anybody.
@hikari For me it starts getting interesting if we think about creating a new world, without changing the current one, leaving this ecosystem and all it's souls alone, as they should be.
If you were tasked with building another, completely isolated plane of existence from scratch, would you do anything different at all? Or would that make it feel inherently hollow and wrong for being incomplete?
I'm honestly not sure if I know my own answer.