Why oh why shall we do this what we do? Okay, there are too many people trying to tell me what to do and I have a strong feeling most of them don't even know what they're talking about. It's too much like they're trying to be the egotistical omniscient being of the univers that they so adore, but in doing so they completely remove themselves from the basic reality of their own subjectivity. Why do people not get how flimsy their entire lives are? Their beliefs are only loose constructs they've formed over life, a reflection of how they've processed all that they've seen and had done to them. But the answer is obvious: in order for people to continue on the track that society as a whole is following, they must adopt or adhere to some set of beliefs that marginalize them, that makes life an afterthought. What matters most is what comes next, after this. And most everybody has fashioned some sort of favorable end for themselves. How can one live a life expecting eternal punishment to follow? Generally this concept of hell is for the "Hitlers" of the world, the comitters of genocide and rape and whatnot. Your average bumbling dolt is all good for eternal bliss as long as he tried his best.
Let's look at the process of morality. First one must be engaged by a moral dilemma: most commonly, I want to do something that I think is wrong. One feels the act is wrong mostly because society has conditioned us to think it. We like to think that things like killing and rape are so vile that even the proper environment wouldn't facilitate a murderous rape-filled society, but if a child is to grow up surrounded by others already comitting these acts as if they're natural and accepted, it is easy to imagine little humans taking to these dark ways all too quickly. So the automatic reaction that 'what I want to do is bad' is just this, a conditioned response taught to you by parents, teachers, books, movies, television, a friend, a sibling that touched you at night, etc. Now, acknowledging this, we must try to distance ourselves as best as we are able from any adoptation of ideology merely because of tradition, because tradition can be flawed and destructive just as easily as it can be a uniting force. We must look at each facet of knowledge we've acquired and determine whether or not it is a legitamate idea or not. We must approach each moral dilemma with this mindset. Is what I want to do bad? Really think about the question and ask yourself what you would do in different philosophical permutations of existence: if god cared, if he didn't, if he already knew you were going to fuck up before you did. No matter what you do, people are going to think you're damned; some group out there believes your soul's done for. A just god can't hold you accountable for not winning the religion lottery. You must determine what makes you happy and to achjieve that state of being you must determine in what to place importance. This can be constantly changing and adapting scale, but one must constantly be considering what to hold most important in order to have the most pleasant life. Of course there are some flaws in this and violent psychotics may feel that their life is most pleasurable if they can just poke a few slits in somebody's fleshy soft parts with a swiss army knife, but there will always be a violently deviant element to a society and they must be thought of on completely different terms. The main question is where will society go if people acknowledge that they are free to do as they like in order to maximize their pleasure in life? Hopefully to a utopian place of beauty (or something like that) but I fear that our cut-throat culture may be corrupting man so much as to take away the possibility of a peaceful return to nature and the ways non-electronic.
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