O.G. Rose | 6. Death Is the Event Horizon of Reason by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
The rational and logical end where death and apocalypse begin; there, “the border of thinking” is reached. If every man, woman, and child will die if I don’t murder someone, is it still wrong to murder? In this situation, what is a clearly immoral act is suddenly not so clearly immoral: it’s as if the “rules have changed,” per se. If murdering a child will save the lives of a hundred children, is it wrong? Outside such a situation, it is easy to say that it’s always wrong to murder, but within such a situation, though it is perhaps still wrong, what is wrong is perhaps also the right thing to do. Whether or not it actually is entails diving into Ethics (as discussed in “(Im)morality” by O.G. Rose), but the point stands that when death and apocalypse are involved, the “rules” of reasoning, logic, and morality can shift: if “the world will end” if x isn’t done, then not doing x becomes hard to defend. How the “rules” shift depends on the situation—the only point I’m making here is that they shift at all...
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The rational and logical end where death and apocalypse begin; there, “the border of thinking” is reached. If every man, woman, and child will die if I don’t murder someone, is it still wrong to murder? In this situation, what is a clearly immoral act is suddenly not so clearly immoral: it’s as if the “rules have changed,” per se. If murdering a child will save the lives of a hundred children, is it wrong? Outside such a situation, it is easy to say that it’s always wrong to murder, but within such a situation, though it is perhaps still wrong, what is wrong is perhaps also the right thing to do. Whether or not it actually is entails diving into Ethics (as discussed in “(Im)morality” by O.G. Rose), but the point stands that when death and apocalypse are involved, the “rules” of reasoning, logic, and morality can shift: if “the world will end” if x isn’t done, then not doing x becomes hard to defend. How the “rules” shift depends on the situation—the only point I’m making here is that they shift at all...
For "The Map Is Indestructible" list, please see:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/list/the-map-is-indestructible-242abdb3219c
For more by O.G. Rose, please visit:
og-rose.com
Find The True Isn’t the Rational on Amazon:
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