So what do we know? Well, it depends.
Have you ever read Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave?
It is a story about miseducation. In the battle of nature versus nurture, nurture (which is education) can certainly almost always win if concentrated. While nature always occurs, nurture can always win over the individual. It is called “conditioning”. But nurture is not always the winner, it depends on what is being taught.
This may be something like Kendrick Lamar’s “T.V. Off“. Let’s say the prisoners in the cave, first off do not understand or have a moral compass. Well there is a stream of video broadcast to the learners. It broadcasts all kinds of very bad and wrongful material. Sexual, immorality, disgusting, and heinous acts of wrong. The learners learn all of this material. That is what they know. TURN OFF HIS CELLPHONE PLEASE, FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
Every time he looked at his screen it would play. He couldn't see it (and no one else in his "layer of reality" saw it) but the people behind his nano cameras saw it. They lined up his interactions with the phone. Every single button click, every single scroll.
So that is what they know, yet I argue that morality, to a certain degree, is natural. Even those conditioned to not have empathy do know, somewhere within themselves, when something is not right if something hurts or violates someone – that that is a wrong.
So in a sense, these people who have been miseducated are more than likely to be propagators of atrocious over other people who have an intact moral compass. But they are like chickens with their heads cut off! They don’t know what they are doing that it is bad and they are the bad people if they act on such learned material!
So what can we do with them?
If someone commits a wrongful action on you, it is only natural to want some kind of justice. If these people are miseducated and know not what they do, who do we blame? They are just like miseducated kids.
The actors who perpetrate wrongs are responsible for their actions, no one else can be, even though the root of the problem is the educators.
Let’s look at another scenario: say someone who is competent and sane and has her moral compass intact looks at disease all day. This person studies and studies and learns about disease all day, every day! While this person is unaware, an experiment is occurring. The “stream” of disease that this person is watching and learning is being broadcast to those in caves like the Allegory of the Cave. The people in the cave have no moral compass and all they get to know is the disease. There is a major difference between the person with a moral compass and the cave dwellers. The cave dwellers, once released from their caves, the cave dwellers now ARE the disease! Whereas the competent studier of disease becomes a Maestro Doctor whom knows the disease is bad.
Okay doctaz, yer slow… it’s okay, we understand… we’ve all been “hit” by this foreign culture that is hard to even “put a finger on”. Well, let me give you a hint to solve all of the problems of the world. The competent person with her moral compass intact was looking at porn that was the disease (as defined by a purveyors of an anti-porn religious ideology?).
Who is in the cave? Who knows? But it has something to do with our thoughts, our actions, our choices, our DNA, our history of living, our property, ectera AND TIME (Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – What does your person emit in one breath that the aforementioned lives out for an entire year!?)
Surely the doctor studying the disease cannot be blamed for the disease. It is the system that directs the disease material to the cave dwellers that is responsible!
So what is good for us is good for them. (Yea because they are people, like you and I…)
But the difference is that we know the difference of right and wrong and they, the cave dwellers don’t. Everything else is the same between us. In or through a certain lens, we can say that we are the same “person”.
That is our common ground (probably amongst other similarities). All peoples (no matter how classified or labelled) deserve basic human rights. PERIOD. And we need to strive to achieve this feat, globally, “inter-dimensionally”.
FOR ALL PEOPLES: Real food, real water, real shelter, real sleep, real clothing, real sex (and the right to individual preferences and abstinence), hygiene, the right to social belonging and acceptance within our peer and family groups, the right to psychological safety and real physical safety.
Individual preferences are to be honored IRREFUTABLY regarding sex. We can achieve this through a matchmaking effort.
We have to start there. That is priority number one.
Let me say once more what our priority number one is for all of humanity:
FOR ALL PEOPLES (no matter how one or two or neander-minotaur is classified as): Real food, real water, real shelter, real sleep, real clothing, real sex (and the right to individual preferences and abstinence), hygiene, the right to social belonging and acceptance within our peer and family groups, the right to psychological safety and real physical safety.
