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Jean Améry
Enlightened
- Mar 17, 2019
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Read about determinism and free will being an illusion. Society conditions people to think the self is at fault but that is truly never the case. People are too idiotic to undo social conditioning to realize their starting point being what they were born into is the only thing that mattered till death because nobody can alter fate. All your thoughts, feelings and outlook is outside your control. Your death is fixed even if you die by suicide that was your natural death and wasn't going to be any other way. Nobody is any different than the stars shooting across the night sky by external forces. People just like to believe otherwise because they're socially conditioned and some people are terrified otherwise.
The problem with that is that determinism is a philosophical position, not a scientific fact. Of course scientists assume the whole universe consists of causal relationships and is therefore predictable but to my knowledge that's more of an assumption than a certainty.
I do agree this society is quite fond of blaming the individual when things go wrong, often without any justification at all.
As to suicide: I do hope/believe that if I do it it'll be the product of a rational thought process and not just the end result of the convergence of forces beyond my own will but who knows?