Ishtar Shakti
I was in another guild and I read a thread concerning ethical practice.
I have thought about ethics alot throughout my time but they had an opinion which gave me a bit of a knee jerk reaction
How does the affect of you drawing energy for a spell affect the ecosystem of the place that you are drawing from...
Now some of the things I have made have been called... "crimes against nature" I have a policy of containing almost every spell I create that is in anyway developed because things wig out when they see them. They may try to copy them and do a s**t poor job and ******** up the world more by messing up something very complex. Or they might wig out that I made something that looked like That.
I would rather teach a potential theif how to make the spell properly then watch them butcher it. I try to make things copy proof so that this can't happen.
It recently occured to me that almost Everything I have ever done was going to upset someone Somewhere. People see the spells I create and they don't understand them and Freak Out. I get very irritated sometimes because none of the spells are geared to create harm. Not a single one of them. Almost all are meant to help people. I have to laboriously explain to people why the spell isn't a bad thing. I find this profuse lack of understanding and even worse a Desire to even try to understand. A lack of commitment to fully understand.
I realized that most of what I do is more to not piss other people off and draw attention then me really thinking about the persons affected... I never Once considered how me altering the flows of energy might disrupt the lives of the persons using the energy. My concern was more towards not drawing attention and leaving a small imprint then actual consideration of other peoples lives because in my mind... I just assume persons will be able to find other sources of energy. Its bountiful plentiful and easy to aquire because its easy for me to aquire.
The things I do are easy for Me to understand. They are easy for Me to do. They seem simple. I know this is a very egocentric view point and I am generally not trying to be soo egocentric but...
Do you think there is a point where you shouldn't constantly be aware and pandering to other people?
Its like people suing Mc Donalds because the food makes them fat.
Or Religious persons suing the school systems because they teach evolution yet they don't provide all views on the subject
Or people suing the damn because it lessened the amount of water flowing to half a valey while flooding the other half.
Just all these issues... people seem to have soo many contradictory view points and they can't all be right.
It gets Tiresome after a while. Its like being yelled at for speaking or breathing or eating. I realized I developed all these defense mechanisms more to appease people then for actually believing that what I was doing was wrong. Its not like I Want to harm people. I try to do my best not to harm people... but it seems more like the line of ethics is wherever you choose to put it.
You weigh the consequences... I almost feel like the ever hated medical industry. Who should you give coverage to? Most of what I do is actually aimed at helping people but it has a cost. Other people are always going to argue the cost.
Evolution makes sense... the dam helps the people in the town... and Mc Donalds really is a huge boon in stopping starvation. Cheap easy and chocked full of preservatives so if you don't have a fridge... or a home to put it in... the other half is still good in the morning.
I feel almost sympathetic to big business... I Don't... but I can understand there arguments.
Even stopping one person from harming another interferes with the will of the person trying to do harm.
Also if, people aren't willing to step up and do the work themselves, to do it in such a way that I Don't Need to, then where is there right to speak.
The people who are harmed by me allocating energy into a shield for someone... did they do anything to stop the person from being attacked. Did they suggest a different way for me getting the energy?
The person who had an issue with my spell... did they even take the time to understand it before flipping out?
It requires work that people aren't willing to do themselves. People want their lives to be simple. To live in a box which they can easily cope with and this... closed existence. Anything new or different is attacked is feared. Is it wrong to ask people to adapt to changes in there environment? Life is constantly changing! If you try to keep out all signs of it... it just seems like people might become twisted warped and deluded.
I don't know if what I've done would be considered right. Is it enough to not mean harm even if you cause it? Is it enough to try not to cause harm -- even though you don't think what you did was wrong that maybe secretly in my heart of hearts I think that I'm probably just doing all this because it would be too difficult to deal with the ramifications of jostling a couple box's.
I don't touch people when I walk down hallways or streets. I don't even physically make contact with people just so that I don't have to Deal with the ramifications. This seems like an excessive and cloistering fear that I would rather not have which has been reinforced by so many people throughout all of my life that it seems almost second nature at this point.
I have thought about ethics alot throughout my time but they had an opinion which gave me a bit of a knee jerk reaction
How does the affect of you drawing energy for a spell affect the ecosystem of the place that you are drawing from...
Now some of the things I have made have been called... "crimes against nature" I have a policy of containing almost every spell I create that is in anyway developed because things wig out when they see them. They may try to copy them and do a s**t poor job and ******** up the world more by messing up something very complex. Or they might wig out that I made something that looked like That.
I would rather teach a potential theif how to make the spell properly then watch them butcher it. I try to make things copy proof so that this can't happen.
It recently occured to me that almost Everything I have ever done was going to upset someone Somewhere. People see the spells I create and they don't understand them and Freak Out. I get very irritated sometimes because none of the spells are geared to create harm. Not a single one of them. Almost all are meant to help people. I have to laboriously explain to people why the spell isn't a bad thing. I find this profuse lack of understanding and even worse a Desire to even try to understand. A lack of commitment to fully understand.
I realized that most of what I do is more to not piss other people off and draw attention then me really thinking about the persons affected... I never Once considered how me altering the flows of energy might disrupt the lives of the persons using the energy. My concern was more towards not drawing attention and leaving a small imprint then actual consideration of other peoples lives because in my mind... I just assume persons will be able to find other sources of energy. Its bountiful plentiful and easy to aquire because its easy for me to aquire.
The things I do are easy for Me to understand. They are easy for Me to do. They seem simple. I know this is a very egocentric view point and I am generally not trying to be soo egocentric but...
Do you think there is a point where you shouldn't constantly be aware and pandering to other people?
Its like people suing Mc Donalds because the food makes them fat.
Or Religious persons suing the school systems because they teach evolution yet they don't provide all views on the subject
Or people suing the damn because it lessened the amount of water flowing to half a valey while flooding the other half.
Just all these issues... people seem to have soo many contradictory view points and they can't all be right.
It gets Tiresome after a while. Its like being yelled at for speaking or breathing or eating. I realized I developed all these defense mechanisms more to appease people then for actually believing that what I was doing was wrong. Its not like I Want to harm people. I try to do my best not to harm people... but it seems more like the line of ethics is wherever you choose to put it.
You weigh the consequences... I almost feel like the ever hated medical industry. Who should you give coverage to? Most of what I do is actually aimed at helping people but it has a cost. Other people are always going to argue the cost.
Evolution makes sense... the dam helps the people in the town... and Mc Donalds really is a huge boon in stopping starvation. Cheap easy and chocked full of preservatives so if you don't have a fridge... or a home to put it in... the other half is still good in the morning.
I feel almost sympathetic to big business... I Don't... but I can understand there arguments.
Even stopping one person from harming another interferes with the will of the person trying to do harm.
Also if, people aren't willing to step up and do the work themselves, to do it in such a way that I Don't Need to, then where is there right to speak.
The people who are harmed by me allocating energy into a shield for someone... did they do anything to stop the person from being attacked. Did they suggest a different way for me getting the energy?
The person who had an issue with my spell... did they even take the time to understand it before flipping out?
It requires work that people aren't willing to do themselves. People want their lives to be simple. To live in a box which they can easily cope with and this... closed existence. Anything new or different is attacked is feared. Is it wrong to ask people to adapt to changes in there environment? Life is constantly changing! If you try to keep out all signs of it... it just seems like people might become twisted warped and deluded.
I don't know if what I've done would be considered right. Is it enough to not mean harm even if you cause it? Is it enough to try not to cause harm -- even though you don't think what you did was wrong that maybe secretly in my heart of hearts I think that I'm probably just doing all this because it would be too difficult to deal with the ramifications of jostling a couple box's.
I don't touch people when I walk down hallways or streets. I don't even physically make contact with people just so that I don't have to Deal with the ramifications. This seems like an excessive and cloistering fear that I would rather not have which has been reinforced by so many people throughout all of my life that it seems almost second nature at this point.
this here seems to me like it can be explained by taking a good look at ethics and philosophy, and where they meet. it is a matter of practicality as well as of principle.
let's take a look at Alchemy for example. the simple scientific processes of understanding the properties of all things, material and spiritual, breaking them down to various degrees of deconstruction (the lowest being where we see all things are made up of the same basic materials, and further down we see that there is only energy, existance), and finaly rebuilding it into something new. this was the precursor to science, particularly the fields of Chemistry and Physics, as well as a bridge between Science and Religion.
it too, was hated, despised, and call a crime against nature. but it WAS nature! it IS nature! it is understanding, and working with, nature.
all things effect all other things, by acting, reacting, and even just by thinking, or even just by being. it is too often that people forget that they too are part of nature, and that they do not disrupt the balance any more than any other thing in nature by doing things which are natural.
magic is natural. alchemy is natural. killing is natural. protecting is natural. eating is natural. mating is natural. changing things is natural.
it is by trying to regulate, by trying to make your own laws greater or more important than the natural laws, that we become "unnatural". ironically, ethics are the very thing that they claim is unethical.
i need no justification to seduce middle-school girls, for example. i can, if i want. i can say it is the same as a wolf stalking lambs, or i can say it is the same as a lion hunting gazelle, or i can say it is the same as a human shooting a dear. because it is. do they justify those actions? no. they do it because that is how they get food. and the body needs food, just like it needs sex, warmth and rest. it is to satisfy instinctual drives which keep th being alive and further the survival of the species.
how's THAT for ethics.
