Sunday, February 22, 2015

One last attack against Leveling.

There is one last reason never to level with people, and this will be some what abstract: It turns every one into a hypocrite. Think about it: In so simple a frame of reference, what alternative have you? Consider the man who says: Stop killing my people! He then kills a soldier from the oppressing army and is accused of hypocrisy. By leveling – by reduction, by the refusal to Think – he is accused of commiting murder whilst denouncing murder. Yet of course his gesture was consistent with his principles: He was stopping the murder of his people. By only pointing out the commonality – killing – and ignoring the difference, the judge of the matter takes a side. It is impossible not to take a side. Any ambivalence is a pretension towards peace, for so far as one side is stronger than another then ambivalence just prioritises the oppressor passively-aggressively. By dismissing the motives underlying an action, which of course pass our threshold of understanding consciously, we become oppressors by equating “behavior” with goodness.


Dm.A.A.

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