Universal Humanism is the only logical conclusion of a truly consistent materialism.
I have a problem with humanity, mainly with those who fall into three of the four political quadrants that house fascism, Stirnerism, and Spencerianism. Those quadrants are primarily right wing but have some left libertarian quadrant occupancy. Believing "morals and principles are not tied to right or wrong" is not a political position, that's the philosophical foundation of collaborationism. If morals have no connection to right and wrong then they have no content at all, they're just preferences, and preferences can always be negotiated. Which means there is no floor. There is no line. Everything is always potentially on the table given the right circumstances and the right pressure. That's exactly what a system needs its subjects to believe in order to keep them manageable, and I do not believe it takes a system to hold this premise but I do believe it takes a system to maintain it. When they can't defeat the diagnosis they pathologize the patient for taking it seriously. People wanna know how I can be both a secular humanist pushing light triad views and an activist-misanthrope, having to deal with this mentality from society, this is how... It's philosophical, psychological, and dialectical materialism of my environment, lived experience, and neurological development. And before anyone comes at me with Münchhausen Trilemma, moral intuition is the axiomatic floor, filtered accumulated species experience encoded into conscience across every economic system humanity has ever produced. Class position determines how clearly that conscience reads, which is why liberation tends to be felt before it's theorized by those experiencing oppression and rationalized away by those benefiting from it. The floor is materialist, but the conscience layer beneath it is trans-systemic, it is real regardless of origin. And everyone has an axiomatic floor, the question is which way does their compass point. I don't think my rant from venting can be said any simpler. It's not about ignorance, it's about damn will.
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