Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 02, 2011
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Lucy: How're the new amendments to the Constitution going? Danae: Pretty good! Lucy: So what's this one you're working on? Danae: Oh, it's one of my favorites! It'll give boys the right to exist and do whatever they want... on their home planet in a galaxy far, far away from me! Lucy: Wow... your generosity is... um... stunning. Danae: I know! Sometimes I even surprise myself.
@Junco… and that’s an innately good thing? Mao, Kim, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, Manson, Bundy Dahmer, Hitler could all fit that model of being more than what the common culture wants as well.
Being more than what the common culture would want isn’t a value. Being and doing good is. If being and doing good ends up being just what the common culture wants, then that is the best thing to be. If it’s more than what the culture would want then it is also the best thing to be. But those values must be objective, not subjective.
This is also why RFK was an idiot with his famous line: “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Is it more important to understand what would make people do evil things and thus learn how to stop them or limit their numbers/ability/effect? Or is it more important to ask, ‘why aren’t people invisible?’
Foolishness, my friend. Foolishness. Danae’s depiction is a perfect, however humorous, representation of complete foolishness.