"Look at me" was the last thing I heard from him, before he left. He kept waiting for me to answer, but I didn't. I was too scared, All I felt was shame of what I have done. I disobeyed his orders, I couldn't bring myself to look at him. Suddenly he disappeared and left me there crying, regretting what I've done. Come back and I'll look, just come back please. I'm sorry, so sorry. I thought.
I agree. A person can learn from their mistakes. That just means they choose differently in the future than in the past.
A "conscious" might be considered to be a guidebook that you create to help you decide what is best to do. In MY conscious it says don't kill anybody. Don't rob people. So I would never choose to do those things.
But if someone's conscious said get the other guy before he gets you and never trust anyone, then he would make his choices based on that.
If someone feels the suffering of others then he won't choose to hurt them. But what if he does not feel the suffering of others? Then he will not take that into account.
The only point I am trying to make is that people always THINK they are choosing the best path to follow. Afterwards they may decide it was not the best path. Or everyone else may judge it not to be the best path.
But the only way we can follow any path at all is to follow what we think is the best path to follow.
Steev the Friction Wizurd you missed the point of conscious, He feels something inside him has changed, if he got caught he will probably feel guilty, if he didn't he will feel strong on the expense of his conscious cause he will be killing it. Also there is learning from your mistakes. like when someone argue with another and things turns nasty, and end up insulting each other both of them feels sad and guilty, some will try to win the argument with nastier words and others will try to avoid hurting others, it's their choice based on their conscious that makes them differentiate between right or wrong. (still nastier words will make the person feel more guilty but powerful cause he won, he will do it again to get the powerful feeling over and over again, losing part of his conscious and humanity, cause after that he won't be able to feel the suffering of others, or his future mistakes cause his conscious would be dead.)
Yes, I don't have any problem with people having a choice. I just have a problem with the idea that anyone does not choose what they think is the best way to go. That's what choice means. If there is a fork in the road and I choose the right fork. That means I thought the right fork was the best way to go.
As regards your thief stealing multiple times... No doubt if he isn't caught the first time he steals then he feels even stronger that he is on the right path. The thief least likely to repeat is the one who is unsuccessful on his first attempt.
No, he does not "know stealing is wrong". You are thinking from your own viewpoint instead of the thief's viewpoint. He might know that YOU think stealing is wrong, but HE does not think stealing is wrong. If he did then he wouldn't do it.
That's the point, people always choose the path they think is best.
Steev the Friction Wizurd you are somehow right no body deliberately chooses evil, but when they do it, their conscious interferes and make them regret it. Ignoring their conscious and killing it by more wrong deeds, till they stop feeling it, and giving excuses to their actions, to shut it up. Most people think of what's good and the greater good for them and they act according to it, but this doesn't mean they don't know what's good from what's evil.
For example a thief he already knows stealing is wrong and might even go to jail for it, yet he chooses to become a thief instead of getting a job to pay the bills.
There is always more than one way to get what you want, People choose differently according to their great good, or according what they feel is right. So they have a choice.
No one ever tries to do evil. This is a big mistake that moral thinkers make. They assume that some people deliberately do the "wrong" thing. It's just not true.
Every person who does something, no matter what it is, thinks he is doing the right thing to do. Even the person who knocks you down and steals your money thinks that is what he needs to do to survive.
When someone murders someone else, they do it because they think that is their best course of action for making their life as good as it can be.
Yes, of course these people are often sadly mistaken. But let's not leap to the conclusion that there are people who choose good and people who choose evil. It just ain't so. Everyone chooses "good". It's just that their idea of "good" might be radically different from everyone else's idea of good.
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