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20-02-2019 I can't fully agree with that, and the topic actually runs much deeper. Let me state a simple fact - a moral creature, needs another moral creature. Without such connection, you are as good as dead. Using a sex doll, or even a human being, purely as a means for your animalistic desires, is the most derogatory behaviour a moral being can get involved with, like doing it with a corpse. Desiring object without a soul, means to deny that you also have one. And if you have a problem with the metaphysical explanation of the soul, use the one of Aristotle. It's about understanding that sentinel beings exist as ends to themselves, not merely as means to our biological urges (which is sadly, the way we experience them). And if you think about it, the topic of eating animals is not that different. They are again - means for our survival. I mentioned Kant before, he also has great thoughts on this topic. We can never escape the fact, that another being is a mean to satisfy our biological urges. This is what it means to live here. However, it doesn't mean, we should not treat others morally, also as an end to themselves. This is for example how the native americans treated nature and animals. They believed everything has a "spirit". Again, "superstition" from an atheistic point of view. But again, I will point out that it was their way, to understand their own moral nature. When you kill an animal to survive, you can still do it with respect and love. Would this makes up for everything? Doubtfully, but this is the best we can do as still living creatures on this planet. I've lived in a village, where people take care for their animals, and to some extend, build relationship with them, since they become part of their life. Some actually really love their animals. It's a completely other thing, to buy a meat from the supermarket, as a product for pure consumption. It becomes just a package with a price tag... It's the same with the sex dolls/robots.The sad thing about the human existence is that the two sexes are so incompatible, so antagonistic, that they both use and abuse each other, in the pursuit of personal goals. This is how nature programmed us, to be instruments of our selfish genes. Based on this abuse, we have the next generation of people, which repeat the same things over and over again. Yes, the genes try to guarantee that this generation will be better fit to survive, but survive for what? I think, deep inside, many of us want to love and be loved, in a moral way, with deeper personal meaning, with empathy. But it's so damn difficult to achieve... maybe even impossible. Even if we have good intentions, we seem to only hurt each other. So I get the idea - maybe you should just go and do what you have to do, better even not involving another human being... However, this is not a reasonable solution, it's just coping, a slow moral death. I feel this death, surely you feel it too. And this is actually what causes the worse kind of suffering - that you can't be the moral being you want to be. It's not so much the physical suffering, it's the feeling of helplessness, being a tool in the machine. However you must realize - this pain, is actually normal. Your moral being feels that its dying, and this... lets call it plane of existence, is evil and wicked. To say it in another way - you suffer, because you are still alive. If you stop feeling pain, you would be morally dead. So you can't hate your pain... You can't hope just for copying, since the more rational solution would be to just kill yourself... And yet, what we can do while we are still alive? How to be moral in the machine? I don't know... Maybe try to reach others to the extend we are really capable of. Always keep in mind what kind of creatures we are, and don't expect much from anything. While young, we strive to get lost in someone, in something, in an idea that can never be. This makes it even worse, since life has actually very little to give. Maybe focus on that little, since it's still better then nothing. In the context of the two sexes, I can think of few things: - marriage doesn't work, since it's part of the machine. - promiscuous sex doesn't work, since it's part of the machine also. - you need your personal space as an individual. Cohabitation doesn't work for everybody, it requires really matching characters. So if it doesn't work, it doesn't work... - you need respect and to be perceived as a person. Not just as a tool to satisfy another person's need. - you need at least some level of physical intimacy. If you can forget "falling in love", i.e. falling in hormones, and you are not that picky about looks and sexual experience, IMO it's not that difficult to achieve basic human intimacy with a lot more people, it doesn't need to be someone super "special". IMO, we must accept, that the big dopamine levels never last, and at the end, you always have just a normal person in front of you... - you need to be able to trust and be treated morally right. If you need faithfulness, you should have it. If you need that person to be reliable, dependable, you should have it. If you need to be able to communicate, you should have it. If the other can't provide your basic expectations for human interaction, there is no need for lies, you can just separate. - you need to feel comfortable, yourself, understood (at least on some level). So, tell me, how difficult is that? Is it too much, is it impossible? These things don't look so extreme to ask, and yet, it seems it is for our species... |
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