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[Anonymous No.15964728]

What should one read to understand why they flip-flop between MEGA HITLER mode and wanting to be as compassionate as the buddha and jesus christ added together, multiple times a day? I'm not sure what to do with the cognitive dissonance.

[Anonymous No.15964747]

>>15964728
*not sure what I should do with the cognitive dissonance.

[Anonymous No.15964749]

>>15964728
You'll get over it once you're out of your early teens.

You *should* feel anger and hatred towards people who want you dead and your kids to be turned into trannies and sodomised. You also *should* feel compassion for the innocent, though you do need to be careful about feeling compassion for people who live totally unrepentant and degenerate lives but will smile at you or whatever.

[Anonymous No.15964758]

>>15964728
I'm on the same situation as OP. On one hand I think we should strive for peace and communion, on the other hand I think a considerable number of people would be better off dead. What do?

[Anonymous No.15964795]

>>15964728
Funny. I've been thinking about this recently. Sometimes I feel completely callous - wish someone would brutally restructure society with no regard for human casualties. Other times the idea that an insect might get hurt makes me feel pangs of grief. Nietzsche himself draws attention to the fickleness of human rationality when he attributes the different moral-metaphysical outlooks of entire cultures to "diet". Most people probably fluctuate between a hundred different moral-sentimental points of view daily. Unless you have some kind of deeply felt conviction, or religious system, to direct your moral impulses toward a specific end, your morality is fundamentally - gastronomical.
>>15964749
cringe

[Anonymous No.15964803]

>>15964795
You're a bugman.

[Anonymous No.15964815]

>>15964728
I wish I knew man.

[Anonymous No.15964862]

>>15964758
Your first idea is driven by emotion whereas the second is through reason.

When in doubt always go with reason.

[Anonymous No.15964865]

>>15964862
>When in doubt always go with reason.
t. genocidal 20th century ideologue... sorry... your platonic projects are over...

[Anonymous No.15964964]

>>15964865
>"Do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny." - Sam Hyde
Losing is not a virtue, and compassion is only a virtue if you have the ability to will a non-compassionate response through.
>tl;dr get power first if you aim to be compassionate

[Anonymous No.15965201]

The man himself and his work "Spheres".
Limit your radius of people and things you are compassionate about.
You are probably propelling yourself into seething hatred (totally understandable) watching western culture collapse into a sea of shrill politics and screaming. On the other hand you actually feel compelled to help your fellow man as we all are.
This division is quite normal because the current time makes it increasingly hard to separate what is outside and what is inside your environment. The media, only accelerated by computers, smartphones and lastly Twit*r has made it increasingly easy for agitating forces to invade your life and disrupt it. It always seems like the enemy is right in front of your gates.

[Anonymous No.15965397]

>>15964728


Pascal in his "Pensees" has something pretty interesting to say about this.

He says, if a person is kind but not capable of being stern when needed, we don't respect him so much. Similarly, if a person is strong and just, but not capable of tenderness, we think he's a bit of a brute. What we most admire in a person is his RANGE - how he can go from extreme kindness to extreme toughness, as the situation demands.

When I read that it reminded me of a piece of dialogue in a novel by Raymond Chandler. It goes something like this:

>"How can such a hard man be so gentle?" she asked wonderingly.

>"If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I wasn't gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive."

[Anonymous No.15966062]

>>15964862
>When in doubt always go with reason.