51/ And finally, prescription for Buddhist theory is spiritual transhumanism: it's unnatural to give up pleasure-from-pain but do so anyway
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53/ We'll pick up from here next time if I feel like inflicting more twitter pain on people
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53a/ Trailer, Shades of Red Part 3: we manufacture material scarcity by seeking epistemic consensus in order to create excuses to cause pain
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this tweet gave me pleasurehttps://twitter.com/joneschrisg/status/891015367547535360 …
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Maybe I missed it, but is there a category of pleasure in pain derived from witnessing the successful (if partial) realization of justice?
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May be the only form for non psychopaths - defend ego by proving the receiver deserves it, and inflicting pain is righteous. Cf. tribalism.
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The ability to succeed in that attempt to rationalize righteousness requires a minimum ability to enjoy seeing/inflicting pain
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But this differs from the aspect of tribalism that focuses opprobrium on permanent out-groups. Ostensibly, justice exists within a tribe.
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I'm wondering if it's possible to have a tribe that doesn't depend on feared and hated outsiders for a sense of cohesion, just equity within
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I suppose that any fiction which enables a cohesion-producing identity involves its members being chosen / fated by gods in some special way
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This is why HHG is a notable counterexample and also my favorite book
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Which reminds me, my brother gave me the complete collection for my 42nd birthday and I still haven't gotten to it (read it as a kid though)
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