Confusion of purpose
Posted: February 9th, 2017, 5:04 pm
It occurs to me that one of the tactics the forces of evil use to destroy society is to implicitly assume that the purpose of some activity is different from what any normal, sane person would take it as being and then argue from that point of view. Over time, people subliminally accept the underlying premise, even though if it had been explicitly put to them early on in the process, they would have found it ridiculous.
For example, suppose I said that because some guy was going to spend more money repairing your car than you then he should have the car, because that would be good for auto mechanics. You would likely think that I had misunderstood the primary purpose of cars, which is to transport their owners who have paid for them, with the enrichment of mechanics being a mere side effect. If I insisted that the reason you and others had bought cars was in fact to enrich mechanics, you would likely reject that as the absurdity that it is. But perhaps if I and the media kept making arguments which implicitly assumed that the purpose of cars was to benefit mechanics, you might eventually subliminally accept that premise.
As an example of this, take the recent statement by evil racist Jew Bill Kristol that the white American working class should be replaced with immigrants because other people supposedly made better workers. This implicitly assumes that the purpose of America is to further enrich corporate big shots, and the reason the forefathers of white Americans sailed from Plymouth Rock, fought the Revolutionary War, built roads and other infrastructure etc. was to further that goal. If you had told the people who fought in the Revolutionary War that that is what they were fighting for, they would think you were insane, yet this implicit assumption has been made so often that many accept it, including on this forum. Similar arguments are made in favor of gay marriage, whereby it is implicitly assumed that the purpose of marriage is to indulge whatever masturbatory fetish you are into, as opposed to raising children, building communities etc. Be sure to recognize this tactic when you see it.
For example, suppose I said that because some guy was going to spend more money repairing your car than you then he should have the car, because that would be good for auto mechanics. You would likely think that I had misunderstood the primary purpose of cars, which is to transport their owners who have paid for them, with the enrichment of mechanics being a mere side effect. If I insisted that the reason you and others had bought cars was in fact to enrich mechanics, you would likely reject that as the absurdity that it is. But perhaps if I and the media kept making arguments which implicitly assumed that the purpose of cars was to benefit mechanics, you might eventually subliminally accept that premise.
As an example of this, take the recent statement by evil racist Jew Bill Kristol that the white American working class should be replaced with immigrants because other people supposedly made better workers. This implicitly assumes that the purpose of America is to further enrich corporate big shots, and the reason the forefathers of white Americans sailed from Plymouth Rock, fought the Revolutionary War, built roads and other infrastructure etc. was to further that goal. If you had told the people who fought in the Revolutionary War that that is what they were fighting for, they would think you were insane, yet this implicit assumption has been made so often that many accept it, including on this forum. Similar arguments are made in favor of gay marriage, whereby it is implicitly assumed that the purpose of marriage is to indulge whatever masturbatory fetish you are into, as opposed to raising children, building communities etc. Be sure to recognize this tactic when you see it.
