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Originally Posted by Skybird
You said: "I see that the roots of money are very deeply entrenched that people lose their objectivity and critical thinking when it comes to discussing that money is holding us back."
I replied: "Just demonising it on grounds of troubled emotions, or declaring people as psychologically inhibited, will not get you around certain factual needs and technical chgallenges in the real world that you cannot avoid."
Says who...?
It starts with changing standards that decidce what is seen to be good and bad. It ends with the fact that you are heading for a frontal head-on crash with empiry over your claim. Imagine you were talking to some IS dude.
A Buddhist would say the one thing all people have in common is that we all try to gain what makes us happy or gives us satisfaction of any kind, and that we want to avoid aversive stimuli.
A dentist drilling my tooth's hole, is an aversive stimuli.
The boy whose family always fought for survival, may find happiness in collecting ever gold and wealth and even betray others for that.
Where is your goodnessnow? Your evil? You have to look deeper, beyond the shallow service of what is just terminology.
Buddha also was asked how many people in his opinion spend their lives in a valuable fashion. He picked some dirt from under one of his fingernails and said: "compared to all dirt on all beaches of the world, not more than this."
Man is an animal that has an inbuild feature called instinct/drive for survival. This can - and often does - lead man to act egopist and selfishly. THAT is natural, and part of human nature. The discussion amongst philosphers whether or not even altruism in itself is a form of egoism, is old and does not really seem to lead anywhere.
Most people do what serves their interests best. That simple and obvious it is. If they only would follow the golden rule, already very much would be won.
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Man is infinite consciousness manifested as flesh and blood. The nature of man is divinity. The natural mode of being is non-duality.
I will say no more.
Man is inclined to do good as testified by our babies who exhibit natural inclination for collaboration and sharing without being taught anything. If men were inclined to do evil then our laws and constitutions would reflect that. Everyone finds murder unacceptable. Everyone finds rape unacceptable. Everyone finds lying unacceptable. We have evolved to do good and to be good simply because we are social creatures. A selfish man has no place in a natural society. A natural society takes care of its weak and impoverished.
Evil is not a terminology. It is a philosophy of life that puts the self over all other things. It's a philosophy of the fearful.