dianaiad
Well-Known Member
If the State sends out the Police or mental health authorities because you have morals that diverge from the State's laws, then you have been on the wrong path entirely, for the rule is one must survive.
No. the 'rule' is not about individual survival, but survival, first, of the family, then the community, then ...perhaps, the state, but ultimately survival of humanity. (the 'species') That sometimes involves the non-survival of the individual.
Or weren't you paying attention in evolution class?
individual survival at all costs is a species limiting idea.
That's from one POV.
Survival at the cost of bowing to repression is ALWAYS going to result in misery, death and destruction of family/community/state/humanity. It must always be resisted, even if it means personal non-survival.
Those who are not willing to stand up to such things deserve what the 'state' they are going along with does. And they deserve the condemnation of those who see them do it; for those who acquiesce to oppression are complicit in it.
....and yes, I am fully aware that I just bit on a firmly tongue in cheek remark. At least...I hope I did.