/lit/ - Literature

>>16874090
I don't go to reddit . I've only ever seen it posted here

>>16807409
What's a good starting place for Gnosticism? Is there any especially definitive work on it?

>>16173502
The absolute state of Schopenhauer disrespectors.

This is just a gentle reminder to my fellow /lit/izens that anime, manga, and all related materials have no place on our wonderful board.
>lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc.
That is all.

We misjudged the ideal role of liberalism. Liberals are only productive and beneficial to society when they're the underdogs. The very formation and existence of liberalism relies on a more practical, less tolerant society to support it. When liberals get into power, things invariably go to shit. Inviting the entire third world to put their feet up on the table didn't help either.

>Enjoy a book
>Research it for shits and giggles
>"My book is a metaphor for the horrors capitalism has wrought on disabled Nigerian transgenders."

Abortion is one of those subjects that perfectly demonstrates the state of the world around us. We live in a time so sheltered from the consequences of our own choices that we basically have the privilege to deny reality whenever it pleases us. Everything, even science and math, is run through a checklist of moral presuppositions before it is accepted as reality. If something conflicts with our moral presuppositions, it cannot be true. The results are rationalized away. Our ability to learn from and understand the world around us has never been greater and we are actively squandering this ability by pretending reality is contingent on man's moral scrutiny. We do this not out of a rigorousness sense of right and wrong, but laziness. We do this because our lives are so sheltered from consequences. It is a greater inconvenience for the tame, sheltered, neutered, socialized modern man to be made morally uncomfortable than it is for him to live a lie. An AI tells you something uncomfortable about race? Must be bad programming. A study suggests females aren't suited for a particular profession? You must hate women. The way we defend our moral assumptions, you'd think it we were obsessed with morals. But abortion? It's one of the least ambiguous things imaginable, yet somehow the obvious moral stance is circumvented entirely. And for what? Convenience. They tell you it's about health/safety, but abortions are performed almost exclusively for mothers who couldn't be bothered to use any of the plethora of safe sex options available and don't want a baby cramping their style (over 99%). Abortion legislation is invariably designed not to make abortion more targeted, but more convenient. The rape victims and the health risks are the poster children, but this is a lie. A conscious lie. Our morals are a fucking lie used to justify our constant pursuit of instant gratification and convenience, and abortion is the most blatant example of it.

>>14558429
I sincerely believe it would be best if you killed yourself. I'm not saying that out of some frustrated struggle to properly articulate how much I disagree with you. I really do believe you should kill yourself. I really, really do. Congrats if you're baiting, but my point still stands for anyone who read your post and agrees with you. Please kill yourself.

>>13449727
>reads your thread once