Originally posted by Joel
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Well at least by focusing all efforts on the former, then one's efforts are not split between the former and the pointless latter. It would increase the chance of success.
Sure, when we teach our children not to wrong others, we often employ the golden rule, and ask them to consider what it would be like if someone did the same to them. Empathy. But then the end point is that the bad thing is bad, and not about how it is a "privilege" to not be hit or solen from, etc.
As I said, it does not seem to me that the differentiation is the problem. And this terminology may be related to that mistake.
As I think more about the "privilege" concept, the more perverse it seems to me. You said in an earlier post that if an injustice were to cease entirely, then the non-victims would then cease to be called "privileged" (in that respect). Non-victims are thus said to be "privileged" if and only if there exists victims. Thus we say people are "privileged" only because others are victims. But that seems sick and twisted. Wouldn't it be better instead to point to the ways people are worse off if their fellow-men are allowed to be victims of injustice?
Sure, when we teach our children not to wrong others, we often employ the golden rule, and ask them to consider what it would be like if someone did the same to them. Empathy. But then the end point is that the bad thing is bad, and not about how it is a "privilege" to not be hit or solen from, etc.
As I said, it does not seem to me that the differentiation is the problem. And this terminology may be related to that mistake.
As I think more about the "privilege" concept, the more perverse it seems to me. You said in an earlier post that if an injustice were to cease entirely, then the non-victims would then cease to be called "privileged" (in that respect). Non-victims are thus said to be "privileged" if and only if there exists victims. Thus we say people are "privileged" only because others are victims. But that seems sick and twisted. Wouldn't it be better instead to point to the ways people are worse off if their fellow-men are allowed to be victims of injustice?
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