mine is that people in general are bad and terrible and my ideal life would be as a hermit with very little interaction with anyone except my animals and plants and no impact from people or governments and never reading the news.
when i was young, i was optimistic about the future of the human race but reality has bitch-smacked my inner child and taught me the truth and it keeps getting confirmed the older and older I get.
so what lessons have you learned as you’ve gotten older?
Social structures like religion and government are ultimately outsourcing one’s ethics to others. If one’s ethics are grounded in these institutions through guilt, shaming, or the fear of getting caught, one does not have real ethics. Real ethics are independent of all external factors. Real ethics imply potential for virtuous character.
I think evangelical christianity (lowercase ‘c’ is intentional here… ) is a plague on society. It teaches people to ignore their conscious because as long as they ask forgiveness from
Jesusthemselves, then any bad thing they did was A-OK and they get that first class seat to heaven.