Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Plato's allegory of the ring - Alex Gendler" video.

  1.  @DaimonAnimations  Yes, empathy is real, and is as natural as the desire to take or steal. Whether we do the one or the other has more to do with the material conditions of our existence than it has to do with anything else. For example, if I must steal to survive, I will, but if I don't have that gun to my head, then I won't. That's what the perfect society strives for, therefore: It strives to fulfill the material wants and needs of its members reasonably and equitably enough such that the majority of antisocial behavior simply ceases to be self-serving. Instead, of course, we encourage endless competition and celebrate extreme inequality under global Capital, and as long as that continues, exploitation and anti-social behavior in return will never be brought under control, no matter how iron-fisted authority may become, and no matter how many cops, soldiers, and death squads are employed in crackdown
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  2. I like how Glaukon's argument was pretty deductive, but Sokrates was just like "nah you're wrong because of the unprovable metaphysics of the human soul." Yet we're supposed to think his argument was somehow better lol
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