You have no obligation to follow any rule made by another person. If they do not have the power to enforce their will, they can be ignored with impunity, and if they do have the power to enforce their will, you can respond with power of your own.
You must learn to think in ways that are not socially acceptable. You must liberate yourself from that bondage. The important thing to get into your head is that you and you alone determine what ideas you will hold, and it does not matter what anybody else thinks.
Just because someone thinks that something is wrong does not make it so, just because a choru says that something is wrong does not make it so, it is might that defines a right. Never forget that.
You must learn not to be controlled by fashions and thought. If you listen to society, you will hear a litany of things that people say are immoral. But you must be willing to question whether they are really wrong or something that people simply do not approve of. And ultimately you will realize that all that is considered evil is merely that which is not socially acceptable for that society at that place in time.
Whatever you do is right by definition because you and you alone make that definition and you make that definition by the fact that you have the power to make it and no one else has the power to stop it. The fact that holding or expressing an idea or performing in action may be socially inconvenient does not alter that essential rightness. Learn to make that distinction and remember the mere fact that someone objects to something is a good enough reason to do it. If someone does not like what you are doing and is in no position to stop you, ram down that person's fucking throat.
Never forget that the law of nature is very simple. The ability to perform an action confers the right to perform the action. Everything else is social tinker.
Now with the online interactions the social dynamic has changed considerably. Even people who have no interest in you and will not be affected in any way by your actions have come to feel out they have the right to pass judgment on others and their actions and they get into prolonged debates over such things. Never let yourself be drawn into that. The moment you make the mistake of trying to justify what you do, you will find yourself in the trap of arguing on the terms of the other person, trying to prove to them that the action meets their criteria of morality. Learn to function under the truth that their personal opinions are not worth shit. Discussion is a waste of time, so let other people waste their time doing it.
Words on a screen have no power in the face of concrete action. They are, as the squeaking of mice in the claws of the family cat. Let others discuss the merits of what we do. We will be too busy doing things and never forget that, no matter what you do, there will always be those who disapprove, and their disapproval is a never-ending source of entertainment because it's fun to scare the village, but it's even more fun to burn the village down around them. You got to love the smell of burning sacrifices in the morning after all, the gods do.
You must learn to think in ways that are not socially acceptable. You must liberate yourself from that bondage. The important thing to get into your head is that you and you alone determine what ideas you will hold, and it does not matter what anybody else thinks.
Just because someone thinks that something is wrong does not make it so, just because a choru says that something is wrong does not make it so, it is might that defines a right. Never forget that.
You must learn not to be controlled by fashions and thought. If you listen to society, you will hear a litany of things that people say are immoral. But you must be willing to question whether they are really wrong or something that people simply do not approve of. And ultimately you will realize that all that is considered evil is merely that which is not socially acceptable for that society at that place in time.
Whatever you do is right by definition because you and you alone make that definition and you make that definition by the fact that you have the power to make it and no one else has the power to stop it. The fact that holding or expressing an idea or performing in action may be socially inconvenient does not alter that essential rightness. Learn to make that distinction and remember the mere fact that someone objects to something is a good enough reason to do it. If someone does not like what you are doing and is in no position to stop you, ram down that person's fucking throat.
Never forget that the law of nature is very simple. The ability to perform an action confers the right to perform the action. Everything else is social tinker.
Now with the online interactions the social dynamic has changed considerably. Even people who have no interest in you and will not be affected in any way by your actions have come to feel out they have the right to pass judgment on others and their actions and they get into prolonged debates over such things. Never let yourself be drawn into that. The moment you make the mistake of trying to justify what you do, you will find yourself in the trap of arguing on the terms of the other person, trying to prove to them that the action meets their criteria of morality. Learn to function under the truth that their personal opinions are not worth shit. Discussion is a waste of time, so let other people waste their time doing it.
Words on a screen have no power in the face of concrete action. They are, as the squeaking of mice in the claws of the family cat. Let others discuss the merits of what we do. We will be too busy doing things and never forget that, no matter what you do, there will always be those who disapprove, and their disapproval is a never-ending source of entertainment because it's fun to scare the village, but it's even more fun to burn the village down around them. You got to love the smell of burning sacrifices in the morning after all, the gods do.
