Funniest example I've ever heard about telos: a philosophy prof was teaching a good-quality introductory survey class to non-philosophy majors,
& a Commerce student had a notebook with a magazine photo of a big yellow Lambo. Underneath the kid had written "TELOS" in huge letters
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the kid was a born Sophist, it was awesome in its purity
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Born salesperson, too. This mentality was dirt common in my insanely brief stint in sales.
Everyone who didn't have extrinsic motivation for needing to earn a lot of money, fast, was this way.
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Yeah, I have to respect it, while I acknowledge how distant I am from having that mindset.
There just are very different kinds of people.
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I don't know. There are few categories of people I have less respect for.
The only other time I've felt such an instant loathing, i was dealing with petty thugs and career criminals.
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For me, context is important. I think I'm focusing on that kid as an individual. He was super young and not a bad person.
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And I used to work with young guys (teens) in the justice system who did a lot of dumb shit, and some who were habitually violent. Because I knew them at young ages (15-18) it was complex.
Was not capable of loathing them*.
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I see your point. But when you see these guys in their 30s, beating the shit out of some kid like the one in your previous tweet over missing drug money, sympathy is hard to come by.
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Yeah. No those are evildoers. And they scared the sh*t out of many the young people I used to work for
Have no sympathy for that.
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And - it makes me angry that the whole War on Drugs creates perverse incentives for this kind of violence in almost every underprivileged community in North America.
No sympathy from me for the asshole moralists who refuse to learn the lessons of 20s and 30s Prohibition.
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Whether they are suckers, sadists or insiders, any War on Drugs advocate is deserving of scorn.