Shawn

How do you explain that? Why the obsession with all these birds of prey?

Wow man, thanks for that! I used to think psycho and sociopaths have no utility; but, they do prey in solitary confinement. The US is in love with haw...

Yes, unenlightened, only good things are directed your way from me. I'm sorry and pleased.

How do you explain the fact that it works, Hanny? It's all documented, researched, and backed by the Swedish krona.

Luckily, we still are homo sapiens, despite such variance in psychology and sociological traits.

Yeah, people are repugnant. Some...

I'm not talking about killing pet cats, fuck that shit.

Oh my fucking God. Oh my fucking God!

Scandinavia has one of the most lax crime system ever, and they don't get away with a lot, neither in terms of taxation. Here in the US, it's such fuc...

What is anxiety, but, not a form of self-punishment? Fear in the extreme.

Not at all. It seems to me that punishment entails, self-punishment and reprisal in fear at such a young age, that we could get by without the whole o...

I don't think teaching children about laws produces anything but neuroticism and fear and maladjustment disorders. It's all therapy at its core.

Yet, the problem persists, and continues to persist. Should we just delve into some thought therapy, or hippocampus memory insertion?

Contractual ism is wrong, should we be educating children about laws? They'll just grow up in fear.

Irrationality in the extreme if I may be so bold!

I don't understand the point of a social contract in a society that has thousands of laws to abide by.

How can that world in our modern-world with 1000's of laws to abide by?

I do not know. I simply reject this current system of punishment and law-abridgment.

Then why do we still struggle with it so badly? Is there any room for progress?

Desired??? By whom? God on his almighty throne? Or some judge?

:cry: What a crazy world. The fact that no better alternative can be entertained as a correctional implementation is enough to negate the just world t...

Relative to what? Are we talking in absolutes here?

I don't think they feel like they have a choice at some point.

I think it boils down to retaliation towards some perceived threat. I mean by this, even inaction.

What a bunch of baloney. Life punishes us? Really? What does that even mean?

Oh my fucking God, what a travesty. If I die, it will be with a smile on my face that this world was corrupted by the insane.

Is it really the experience, or knowledge or lack-thereof? If people knew how many people actually DON'T get away with crimes, things would shift so d...

Nuu, the golden rules assumes nothing without a principle of equivalence. Where it cannot be met, it fails.

No.

I think the US is so incredibly obsessed with punishment, that I'm honest to God afraid for people who make mistakes in it.

I think you're onto something. Do go on.

And what else, resentment? I can't stand the idea honestly.

Good question. I think it's perceived as punishment in the least, to every party involved. Whilst, the act may be intended towards different consequen...

My assumption, is that it can be disposed with, but... unfortunately, things will be acted upon, and unfortunately, have to be dealt with. I just thin...

A theft? A murder? By definition, any *crime*.

How do you explain behavior that takes place in spite of understatement of its negative consequence for both parties involved?

Yes. https://gph.is/Zfh9X7

You accept punishment, willingly?

Animals punish each-other without end. It's so typical that's it's almost primitive...

But, does this have to be demonstrated in act only?

There seems more to it than that, in my view. I think of punishment as a relic of evolutionary rudimentary psychology. Ask me why.

People seek, in such a deep sense, the desire for retribution over errs and heresy. I have felt a desire for vengeance. Why is punishment so satisfyin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uT92dZ6hg8

Are you OK, unenlightened-san?

So does medicine.

I think pleasure is an outlet for those with suicidal idealizations. In small doses please.

I read so many sad and self-destructive thoughts on that Discord. It's absurd. What is with people wanting to commit suicide?

Are you talking about dukkha?

But, the issue seems to me to become one of a desire for self-annihilation. Why is that?

I just got banned from a psychology mental-issues Discord server for being too empathetic. Go figure.