Reply #4: While I applaud your overall opinion, I must decry both your [View All]

analysis and the conclusions derived therefrom as hopelessly simplistic.

At risk of oversimplification, myself, I would point out that everyone, everyone, operates solely from self interest, in the final analysis. Enlightened self interest can, indeed, be considered the most noble of human instincts, while unenlightened, utterly self serving self interest can be the bane of human experience.

We cloak our words, thoughts, and actions in flowery, high minded, socially acceptable sounding terms, leading to conclusions that may have no bearing on original action or intent. That, unfortunately, along with the lack of ability to read minds, tends to lead us to classify people based on a purely arbitrary and often quite inaccurate set of non-standards, using terms that have no fixed meanings. It also covers anti-social intentions and policies while soothing and distracting associates and opponents.

I cannot support your final conclusion, either, that life, somehow, will make sure the selfish, self-centered bastard gets it in the end. This conclusion only works in light of an assumption of continued existence after death, an assumption with no basis in fact and one I cannot, in good conscience, find any rational support for, except that it may alter behavior in some circumstances.

There are nasty, officious, self important rat bastards, who will pay no price for their diseased existence, in this plane or another, and will do their anti-people shit with impunity, their wickedness often surviving them and creating pain and chaos for many, many generations after they, themselves, become little more than a footnote in history. There is no evidence of some sort of "great leveler" that will even the score or bring into being some kind of countervailing force to re-balance humanity or society.

We are the contrary force that looks like "karma" or "justice" and we must swing into action to stop these people and put them somewhere they can no longer hurt us, individually or in common. There is no "life" force or justice-it only looks like that when we can't see the mechanism behind change. We are it.