Friday, September 12, 2008

Before Morality

Damn never thought a blog would be Me. But here I am sharing my thoughts as noone in particular with noone in particular. Funny Shit.

As a topic for this first Blog... I'm gonna explore a hypothesis i read as a child... It might not exactly be one, but fuck it, because I read it and I'm gonna treat it as such in my own damn way.

Does anybody remember Roald Dahl? yeah, he wrote James and the Giant Peach? he had another book about Giants that I never finished reading. I stopped reading it when I got to a specific part of the book. One of the Giants asked the "hero" if he knew something in particular that started to make me think, and might make you all think too. If I remember correctly he said, " Did you know that in all the world no other animal on earth commits murder of their same species besides humans?" It had to do with the "hero" calling the Giants savage, and in their defense... that's the name of the book... BFG, the Big Friendly Giant. Sorry, but I'm not about to start over because I just remembered the name. Well to continue... in defense of his Giant brethren, the BFG said that as cruel and unusual as the rest of his kind seemed, they would never murder another Giant, even him as odd as he was with all of his "human" characteristics. That is something I've thought about since i was in, maybe 4th or 5th grade.

What do I think about this? well, I believe this is true in quite a few ways. we will kill over SO many issues that do not pertain to survival that whether or not the BFG was wrong, we do look sad in comparison. This, surprisingly enough, isn't what I think about for the most part. When it comes to this issue I think about Nature. More in the idea of how could this become natural for human beings than in the idea of "this is wrong" and "we are better than this". (all of which I believe is bullshit mentality.) Actually, I decided to take this for what it was, and try and figure out how we could get to such a state.

By way of half-ideas and random thought, over the past 9-10 years of my life, I decided that Population control was the simplest, most effective reason for the prevalence of murderous behavior in human society as opposed to other species. It seems like a fucked up Conclusion to make huh? Don't lie, because I think it is, and I made it. I made it without hindering myself with moral obligations hence the title Before Morality... and if you want to know the reasoning behind my Conclusion, you Mofoz are gonna have to leave some comments or something so I can feel secure that I am not really just talking to myself on the Internet. I will explain myself in my next Blog... if there is one.

To be continued... or (dis)continued...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, this kind of reminds me of my philosophy calss im taking, "intro to ethics" but yeah, i see what your saying about the population, but i have to disagree. i just think it is human nature to only feel relavent if you are in control, some more than others, of course.

MAK said...

oh yea ive heard that saying to...that we are the only species that kill our own like we do..and it made me pause as well. i'm completely with u on the population theory though..hands down...(by the way i found ur blog thru Treezy's blog comments..had to check you out)