Fasting grampa wants his life to matter, so feeds himself to Tiger instead of just bringing in another food source. Tiger gives no shits. But Grandpa lovers think his sacrifice was beautiful instead of unnecessary.
Not the Buddhist teaching. But my interpretation.
And one MAGA supporters should definitley read.
The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.
You pirated a song?
Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.
We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.
Fucking LOL.
Agreed. But it’s easier to explain to American Christians they are fully practicing a second religion with MAGA, rather than convince them all religions are crap.
Oh sure. Not hard at all.
But what’s he’s been lying about is:
-Everyone in politics sucks but me. -I’m the best at everything. -Dems are horrible. -Republicans that aren’t loyal are horrible too.
These lies have made him literally the only necessary component of MAGA by default.
Russia unquestionably used this to their advantage, but a campaign built on lies still remains weak if theres only one person those lies are centered around.
If Trump isn’t around to “compare” democrats to, it’ll be pretty obvious he’s lying about them. Even more so when the GOP realizes not a single other slime ball in his swamp has the reality TV experience or fast food charisma Trump does to keep his audiences engaged with endless bullshit.
Good thing their MAGA religion is made up. And while 100% they do think Trump is Jesus, he isn’t coming back from the dead. If anything, assassinating him would implode the GOP as it’s entire structure is now accupied by complete imbeciles who just copy Trump. No Trump, nothing left to copy.
That’s the thing about Fascism - it’s always just populism. Aka vote for popular guy, and do what he says.
Hell most neo Nazis still have a boner for Hitler despite him not being around. The best they can do is convince themselves Trump is just like their fave Fascism daddy.
Populism is weak, because it always rests on the popularity of one guy. Trump is that guy, and once he’s gone so is his populism.
Would be hilarious if his fans did him in thinking he’d be coming back from a cave on Easter, instead of shattering the entirety of the GOP for a generation. Without Trump, they don’t know what they’re doing, and they seem very eager to find that out the hard way.
Starting to, yes. But they at least still adhere to their political ideologies, instead of replacing them fully with the devout religious worship of a geriatric conman.
Is it an arrest if there’s no due process though? Honest question. What are they arresting him for that would ever see trial? What crime was he even claimed of committing for an arrest?
Because if there’s no trial, then there’s no due process. Andnif there’s no due process, then it’s not an arrest, it’s a kidnapping.
In which case he should be punching those fucks in the face.
That’s almost 30% lower my dude. Which is quite a lot.
Courts ARE slow! And that’s the loop hole people with shit loads of money use to make sure they are never punished.
They just Lawyer up with the most expensive ones they can find, then ask them every way they can contest the court. Then they pay to contest it.
Often waiting years for sentencing. Where in that time they get the laws changed and make favors so when you are sentenced, it’s a get out of jail free card.
Sometimes the Epstein way. Who ran a child porn and trafficking empire for decades and never served justice, nor will any of his clients.
Courts will remain slow as long as those who are paid most are great at slowing things down for their clients.
Like a President with 34 felonies and no sentencing. Or the same president committing the largest single national security breach in all of American history and will never see trial.
I want to believe in our court system. Because it was nice to feel like Justice was neutral and fair.
But over the last 2 decades I’ve seen dumptrucks of crime dissolve American society, and little to no punishment from a court too slow to fight all the money evil people now have.
In 2008, there was a financial crisis that the media says was handled well. Except the system that was to be put in place to monitor fruad, the CAT system, has had its implementation delayed until 2024. When it started to finally, finally be used to monitor tlfinancial errors. And there were billions.
Then the Trump admin delayed it’s necessity until 2027.
19 years later. A fix for the problem in Wallstreet from 2008. In that time, they just got better at hiding what they’re doing. And now it’s another house of cards that Trumps too much of an idiot to keep standing.
That’s not justice. That’s a joke.
Still waiting.
Clowns like you are pretty funny. Especially when they laugh at themselves being the punchline. Really curious how long it’s gonna take you to realize it.
ROFL: Retarded Or Fucking Lonely. In your case, I think it’s both.
Right so this is a different concept to the definition of “duty” you gave previously.
It isn’t.
Please explain the difference between both to prove it.
I provided an analogy. Which doesn’t contradict anything.
I also already provided the definition of what an analogy is so I could mention it now.
Because your ignorance is very predictable.
I also accurately guessed you’d be backpedaling to saying there’s a seperate concept of duty.
And here we are.
Next up - you refusing to explain your own claimed differences between the concepts of duty.
The problem isn’t my answer. It’s your willful ignorance to understand it.
Simply put:
I asked about duty, not about “biological duty”.
Explain how these are different. Otherwise they aren’t.
Would love to hear your explanation as to why voters chose Trump over Kamala that doesn’t boil down to being duped into conflating popularity with functional policy.
Our government is a clown show of reality TV rejects that you have rationalized as qualified due to a diet of purely manufactured infotainment.
Anyone with any meaningful government experience has done nothing but warn you about how little fucks Trump gives about this country, but you think because he puts himself in front of an American flag he has every right to store all our countries most valuable secrets in a bathroom with a fax machine readily accessible to any foreign agent willing to pay Jared more billions.
Trump has done nothing but shit in your mouth, and the only one believing it tastes good is you. Too bad generations of Americans will now have to eat it too because you’ve been tricked into thinking punishing made up enemies somehow equates to societal progress.
Analogy:
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
My first attempt at explaining “biological duty” was through an analogy.
Breathing. Shitting. Pretty obvious tasks your body has a “biological duty” to perform without your consent if you are to survive.
If your heart stops beating, you die If you don’t breath, you die.
Are you personally choosing to make your body do these things at all times?
No. Your body is doing it for you (regrettably).
Why is your body doing that?
My answer: It’s because our genetic code evolved to have a duty to preserve our existence.
You answer: shrug emoji
If you want to insist that you can’t understand what I mean when I say “biological duty” then you’re gonna have to explain how your heart beats without you thinking about it.
Because frankly, at this point, I’d love for you to be right about me making up “biological duty” when it comes to your body and the heart that keeps it going.
Whether you want it to or not, your body is forcing you to preserve yourself. Which is a basic concept in biology, and readily observable in all living things if you ever bothered to go outside.
First result from Google:
“biological duty” refers to the inherent functions or purposes that living organisms are considered to have, often relating to their SURVIVAL and reproduction.
So to put it all back in context for you to obstinately refuse to consider:
You aren’t the reason your heart beats. You aren’t the reason you get hungry. You aren’t the reason you feel lonely.
That’s your body.
It does its own thing to guarantee your survival. Whether you want it to or not. Which is why it’s considered a “duty.” In the biology books I previously mentioned you need to read, this is defined as your bodies “biological duty” of self preservation.
All humans have it. Whether you understand it or not, you have it too.
It forces you to eat. It forces you to breath. It forces you to sleep. But more importantly, it forces you to build an environment where you can obtain these things in the future too.
Birds build nests. Beavers build dams. Humans build small familial communities.
These provide you with food when your body can’t. These provide you with a place to sleep if you have none.
Ever feel lonely? Yeah, that’s your bodies way of telling you you’re “hungry” for socialization. Socialization that when developed enough, can provide you reproductive options, and food / shelter security.
Your body wants you to meet other humans to guarantee your survival. Your body wants you to help these people as that both increase your chances they will help you survive, and bonus, releases a fuck load of dopamine to make you feel good.
So:
Everyones bodies, regardless of their control over it, compels them to survive and to help other humans due the same - which over time, creates groups of people helping each other mutually beyond what they are capable of providing themselves. This grouping can be a family, or any other grouping of humans as I previously mentioned.
At scale, this means all humans are working to benefit themselves and others. Which in turn benefits the species as a whole.
So if you are human, your DNA is literally programmed with an unavoidable duty to preserve you and other humans as far as it possibly can.
If you occupy a human body, then that body is programmed with a biological duty to preserve you and other humans.
Unless you are:
A) Depressed B) Sociopath C) Sourrounded by wealth C) Not human
This is the same answer I’ve always provided. It is a very simple and widely accepted answer to the questions you have asked.
If you want an answer, you now have one.
But you don’t want an answer. You just want to feel special about something ignorant you thought of, never defined, never researched, and now clearly can’t back down from.
Second definition from Google / dictionary:
Duty - a task or action that someone is required to perform.
“the queen’s official duties”
Or in the way I used it:
The “human biological duties” we all have specifically required for human survival.
You brought up the importance of “duty” and how it’s something my point didn’t fit, but the responsibility of defining it was up to you. Yet you failed to provide a definition, just like you’ve failed to say literally anything this whole conversation.
I knew you’d fail to define “duty” which would allow me to provide it in turn and fully prove my point. Which I just did.
So now you’re fucked.
You’re clearly incapable of admitting fault, listening, or forming a coherent concept that isn’t just your opinion disguised as questions.
All you can do now is split hairs (look that one up yourself) so your next response will be to move the goalposts of your question somewhere else you feel you can still be right.
Lemme guess - another definition of duty? Maybe a weaker one you will claim you really meant, but clearly just failed to provide in the first place and now are just scrambling back to?
Or, you really are just a boring troll who gives zero fucks and will now say your question has nothing to do with duty after forgetting how hard you just really went in on that being the key part of the argument you never made.
There’s another option you could take: Your question has been answered in full.
Which is very much what a reasonable person would do at this point. But it’s pretty clear that’s not what this conversation is actually about for you anymore.
The definition of “duty” fits my point perfectly, unless you want to explain it how it doesn’t.
You didn’t say any of that.
That’s what my second comment saying just that was for.
You didn’t understand my original point (and still don’t).
Which is why I made a second comment explaining that you can ctrl+F for “children” and replace it with “family” to better understand my point.
The answer to your question can be found in multitudes of philosophy, ethics, and biology books. I encourage you to read them instead of trolling here for the sake of your own ego.
Because this question of yours:
Why does one have a duty to improve one’s own future or the future of one’s family?
Has an obvious answer. One that you can reach by asking similarly obvious questions.
“Why does one have a duty to eat?”
Or breath?
Or sleep?
Survival. That’s why. Without eating, sleeping, or breathing you die. Without a community to help provide security for these things, you also die. (Unless you want to tell me humans aged 0-8 are expected to survive if yeeted into the wild? I sincerely doubt you would too despite being older)
Survival is a BIOS level operating function of everything living.
And the same point I first made along with everyone else that you will continue to ignore.
So it’s not so much a “duty,” as a biological compulsion similar to being hungry. Making us all want to survive, and eventually thrive for a happy life. And the only way that happens is if we work to maintain or improve our environment. (Like eating when you’re hungry). Our own biology pushes us to do that through internal reward mechanisms that spiral out into a feedback loop of prosperity. Like when you body tells you something tastes good, and you want to share that taste with a friend.
Your question implies an unsaid argument that is essentially the fast food equivalent of nihilism. That humans don’t matter, and our lives are meaningless.
No offense, but you are either too young or too far up your own ass if you think you’re on to anything new with your question. It’s been answered hundreds of times throughout history by people far smarter than us, and I’m not going to hold your hand through understanding something you are clearing saying just because you want to feel special when saying it rather than learn an actual answer.
If you want to feel that life is meaningless, go right ahead. But stop pretending that you can’t give it meaning yourself. I’ve given you the basic biological one, you’re gonna have to open a book if you want the rest.
Buddha wants a “peace” of pizza.