Sergey Shelukhin's weird views on stuff
Due to chronic misinterpretation if my opinions (some people call me godless left radical and some accuse me of being racist "Joe the Plumber" in the forums :)), and because I simply felt like putting my views on paper (so to speak) for whatever reason, I decided to describe, consistently and in order, my view of the world.
This is incomplete page; seeing how it took me like 9 months to write this, it will probalby never be completed, so I added a summary
Disclaimer/etc
There are several important points:
- I don't really care about this stuff. I am not really emotionally commited to this stuff. I am not going to act upon it, simply because it's a pointless waste of time. I hold (and argue over) these views intellectually, but emotionally, I barely care.
If I held position with significant influence to really change the world, I probably would have tried implementing my views, but in reality? Duh. I kinda hope that West would stay semi normal thru my lifetime, and then, I don't care ;)
- Sometimes I troll people. When some leftie or religious poster annoys me, I might present part my views on x10 scale out of the blue, to evoke angry irrational response typical of dumbfucks. So far, it has been very successful. I derive some pleasure knowing that perhaps I destroyed some of their nerve cells in process :)
- I do not mutually-support views of any group. All atheists in the world don't thing like that. All Russians in the world don't think like that. All libertarians/conservatives/culturalists/etc, all people who were in the same uni/company/city/whatever with me don't share same opinions. Due to first point, I get along with people of opposing views just fine IRL, as long as they, like me, keep their views to themselves. I'm tired of harebrained people extrapolating stuff in arguments.
Summary
- I am naturalistic (as a worldview) and mildly nihilistic
- Atheist, with militant leanings of armchair variety
- Humans are born equal, but definitely aren't equal - by their conduct
- Technological progress is unquestionably good
- Western socio-political culture is unquestionably superior to all others
- Capitalism, globalisation, free trade are good
- Public works and services via taxes are often good, but all forms of welfare are evil
- Freedom of speech should be nearly absolute - only direct hate speech should be opposed, and cartoons/parodies/etc are not it
- On issues #1: anti-gun control, pro-death penalty (but it should be faster), anti-animal-rights
- On issues #2: pro-choice, victimless crime is not crime, support reasonable (as opposed to hippie) environmentalism
- On issues #3: most of "minority rights" movements are by now full of shit, even thought they initially made sense
- On issues #4: support Israel 99%
Basic ideas/premises
My basic premises and logic behind the base of my view on life, universe, and everything, is as follows.
Most basic premise #1 that leads (for me!) to everything else:
- Humans are just a bunch of apes who started hunting in groups and learned some tricks.The statement itself is not an opinion, that's a mostly-proven scientific theory. The opinion part is that most people, even those who also know that fact, atheists, rationalists and whatnot, think that by developing speech, complex society, etc, humans magically stopped being a bunch of individually insignificant apes on an insignificant planet near insignicant star in an insignificant arm of insignificant galaxy in mindnumblingly huge universe. Well, they didn't.
Level 2 premises that follow and serve as foundation for what I call optimistic nihilism:
- There's no meaning of life (nihilism part).
I am, in the end, pointless random ape, and so are you. If you say "No I'm not" you invented (or accepted from someone else, more likely) a "meaning of life" and now fool yourself. With development of introspection, out of fear and whatever people started inventing meanings of life; however really life on Earth, and individual human life, is utterly pointless; the latter is also very short. When you die, you actually cease to exist. It's probably impossible to conceptualize it because you cannot imagine observer disappearing while still being the observer.
- However, there's time to spend (optimistic part)! You still have your life span, and that's all you have. Invent your meaning, but always remember about the previous point.
- Moral behavior exists. Humans have a lot of evolved mechanisms for enforcing "morals", altruism, cooperation, and whatnot. Within the limits where they make sense, morals exist. Describing any philosophy that doesn't have irrationally imposed moral code as leading to free reign of anarchy and murder is purely theoretical concept. Morals are also useful to a degree (further).
- Free will vs determinism argument is irrelevant to anything.
Base for political philosophy
First, about goals of society and conclusions thence.
Political/social views in bulk