Of course we have a victim bias
If nothing else, it would result from empathy
To live after death, we must pass on part of ourselves
Our genes
Or our ideas
Both would require protecting some entity weaker than us, until they are strong enough to indeed carry on this part of us
So we evolved empathy, perhaps
Of course we have a victim bias
Of course we identify with the victim
It’s because we ourselves are victims
Who even considers themselves a WINNER?
No one
Everyone you know knows someone BETTER than them at something
There are no winners, only losers
And each of those losers can only take so much responsibility for being a loser
The rest of it he blames on others
Therefore identifies as a VICTIM
And when you’re a victim — then of course you’ll now side with the victim
A bias is, of course, a bias
Loser is just a loser
Winner is a winner
For there to be a winner — there must also be a loser
Therefore this can’t be solved
It’s a wrong question to ask
Victimhood, injustice, has NOTHING to do with there being LOSERS. Losers are necessary for the existence of winners
The better question is — how can we COLLECTIVELY, AS ONE, ELEVATE?
Well we can attempt to take each other up
You learned how to do something better and now you’ll teach me
In return I’ll teach you what I do better
I’ll give you something useful which I managed to create
You’ll give me something useful yourself
And then we invite even more people
Perhaps they can help us create more useful things, lovely things
Perhaps they have some useful ideas
This is how we collective elevate
The formula above doesn’t even mention, consider the concept of a “victim”
Because what does the victim contribute?
I’m not saying the victim can’t contribute — although indeed man who believe they are victimised and thus blameless, are a bit less likely to take responsibility, a bit less likely to take action and do something useful
But the point is — a victim is not a category defined by his contribution — therefore is absent from that formula
Only ELEVATORS are relevant for the PROCESS OF ELEVATION
It’s self-evident, tautological
ELEVATORS ELEVATE
This is the engine of progress
AGAIN, I’M NOT SAYING there’s not a different question:
HOW TO DISTRIBUTE THIS VALUE CREATED to those who failed to receive it?
But again — this problem only exists IF there is indeed surplus value created
Therefore IF indeed someone IS doing something useful, valuable in the first place
But yes, we can view it now as a failure of the system if someone fails to receive a share of that value created
I’m not denying this problem
Although I would caution against overzealousness in solving it
It would be most unfortunate if this quest for equity would come at the cost of impeding the engine of growth and elevation
And finally, at the most elementary level,
WHAT IS A VICTIM ANYWAY?
Having already established the necessity of there being LOSERS
Having already admitted the less-than-utopian state of the society… AND the basically the omnipotence-level difficulty of arranging it better…
WHAT IS A VICTIM ANYWAY?
How do we go from merely observing the inevitable loser, or the inevitable disadvantaged member of the system — to the MORAL JUDGEMENT of the state being somehow WRONG, EVIL, REPREHENSIBLE?
Where’s the formula for that moral arithmetic?
What’s the number? Number below which someone QUALIFIES as a VICTIM — and the rest of the SOCIETY qualify as EVIL VICTIMIZERS?
And how do you arrive at that number? How do you QUANTIFY IT?
Obviously you can’t
You can only DO YOUR BEST
But you can’t quantify it
You can’t bargain about it
You shouldn’t really talk much about
You should ONLY DO BETTER
Only talk as much as is necessary to do better,
Not more and not less
Let the deeds do the talking
ONLY deeds can do the talking
The deeds, the REALITY, is the entire point
Not some abstract made-up utterly fucking intangible theory or ideal
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Victim-bias exists
Virtue-signalling exists
Pop-morality exists
You want to feel virtuous, it’s a fact
You want some cheap meaning into your empty life
Not until you realise all of that,
will you find anything resembling virtue, morality,
anything resembling meaning
anything resembling reality
anything resembling betterment: personal or societal