06-03-2012, 07:55 AM
(06-02-2012, 10:01 AM)Donovan Wrote: political correctness is a modern construct based on one of the oldest tenets we like to quote but not necessarily follow: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You find this sentiment echoed throughout all the world's religions as well as in most "noble professions" requiring some sort of oath. First, do no harm.
We live in a world where people judge "otherness" as wrong and therefore something to destroy. It is one of our baser instincts and has been the guiding force behind some of our darkest and most shameful historic events as human beings. We tend to want to kill anything that isn't exactly like ourselves, and worse, we tend to lash out and destroy anyone who tries to preach acceptance and tolerance.
We are not a welcoming species. We've been doing each other in over imagined differences ever since two cavemen on one side of the river saw a third on the other side and said, "Hey that guy's on the wrong fucking side, let's go bash his head with a rock." We celebrate our most murderous or bloodthirsty humans with immortality, and if any philosophers step forward to point out the error of this we make them drink hemlock or hang them from a cross.
It has always been this way. We are not nearly so evolved as we like to imagine ourselves...
It all comes down to gene wars, and it all can be blamed, ultimately, on the fact that species are born out of a competition for resources.
