From: wernerhetzner@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 10:58:29 AM UTC-4, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   > On 2020-04-08, New York Libertarians  wrote:   
   > > I find lots of wisdom in Dune novels. Here is an example:    
   > > “PSYCHOLOGY: The science of inventing words for things that do not   
   exist.” – Erasmus   
   >    
   > That is so true about the phoney science of Psychology. Psychiatry is   
   > worse.  They just invent something, and by that act people think it is   
   > real. They more or less come to own it. When the word “unhappy” has   
   > a long history, and there is some instinctual knowledge about how to deal   
   > with it, all that inate knowledge is somehow offset because they labeled   
   > it “depression.”    
   >    
   > Now they can play the expert on a human experience as old as the world,   
   > that they know nothing more about than the next person (often less I   
   > guess, in their cushy jobs at the University, and their “book wisdom”   
   > as we call it). Label it, control it, own it, be the expert on it and   
   > above all: make money off of it. The worse ‛disease’ here is that   
   > people accept it. They play this game with just about everything. It is   
   > a fake science, not unlike economics. It shouldn't be, but unfortunately   
   > it is done at such a low grade that it is more or less useless, if not   
   > life destroying to its victims.   
   >    
   > > Good & evil are two such words.   
   >    
   > No, you just made that up. There is good, and there is evil, and many   
   > shades of grey in between. If you don't know that, you should try finding   
   > some bad group of gangsters, and get on their nerves. Maybe you will gain   
   > an appreciation of what the word “evil” means. Having your fingers   
   > clipped off one by one for no reason other than their enjoyment will   
   > do that to you, I would think. There is no use for such behavior, therefore   
   > it is called evil.   
   >    
   > To experience good may be more difficult, because it is best experienced   
   > when in a bad situation I suppose. If someone helps you, when you really   
   > need it.   
   >    
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   Depends on perspective. On 9/11 out 6 jihadist killed themselves and several   
   thousand people in the name of Allah, for example. The Japanese bombed Pearl   
   Harbor so the US vaporized 2 cities. PolPot killed several thousand in the   
   name of communism etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)