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Yakk · 06-23-2004, 11:21 AM

While I agree repression has it's uses, claiming that a fully expressive human is an animal is a misunderstanding of how animals act.

Animals are extremely repressed by their internal rules. They follow patterns way more than humans do, and dislike changes much more.

While repression is useful, expression is what makes humanity interesting and possibly immortal (as a species).

Repression is a virue like mortality is a virtue. By killing off life, it allows life to grow and change. By pruning expression, repression allows humanity to grow and change. But death is not more important to life than life is.

Halx, you are looking for an always-atheist who is not only personally socially conservative, but believes that government should regulate social conservative values onto the population. The problem might be pretty simple.

Not that long ago, hell probably today, it is a tenant of the extreme social conservatives that atheism itself is evil and should be repressed. Someone who is raised to be athiest has parents who have probably been persecuted for their beliefs or lack thereof: this probably won't lean them towards being raised socially conservative. And reconciling "I think everyone else should be regulated, except for me" when the majority of the country wants to regulate your belief system out of existance... that's some serious cognative dissonnence.

06-23-2004, 11:21 AM	#13 (permalink)
Yakk Wehret Den Anfängen! Location: Ontario, Canada	While I agree repression has it's uses, claiming that a fully expressive human is an animal is a misunderstanding of how animals act. Animals are extremely repressed by their internal rules. They follow patterns way more than humans do, and dislike changes much more. While repression is useful, expression is what makes humanity interesting and possibly immortal (as a species). Repression is a virue like mortality is a virtue. By killing off life, it allows life to grow and change. By pruning expression, repression allows humanity to grow and change. But death is not more important to life than life is. Halx, you are looking for an always-atheist who is not only personally socially conservative, but believes that government should regulate social conservative values onto the population. The problem might be pretty simple. Not that long ago, hell probably today, it is a tenant of the extreme social conservatives that atheism itself is evil and should be repressed. Someone who is raised to be athiest has parents who have probably been persecuted for their beliefs or lack thereof: this probably won't lean them towards being raised socially conservative. And reconciling "I think everyone else should be regulated, except for me" when the majority of the country wants to regulate your belief system out of existance... that's some serious cognative dissonnence. __________________ Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.