Having caught a glimpse of those things our ancestors would have called evil... they seem to me something unknowable, so strange and alien in their very nature they're incomprehensible to humans. They don't feel "evil" to me as much as "indifferent to the plight of humanity" as in they have a different type of morality... much as our actions toward those things like insects and "lower life".
Quoting: Bea Nameless Morality is morality, it does not vary in type. An indifference to the plight of humanity means that whatever entities you encountered are prioritizing their own needs over another group of spirited/soul vessels, humans, which is immoral. We are very different from animals, although housed in an animal shell, and still subject to instincts, we can choose differently.
Moral relativism is a concerted centuries long disinformation campaign.
Agreed, but what would you do if a colony of ants set up shop in your home. Would you smash it, spray it or nurture it? Do we not prioritize our needs above those we consider lesser every single day? Is that evil? Is that moral? I'm not defending things that think of me as an ant, by the way... I'm just positing something very real. Because of our biological makeup, we constantly destroy life to feed our own. This entire system is set up so one thing feeds on another. How are we moral and good when we do the same thing? It's all about range and scale.
Because we are simply biological avatars the house our real being, our souls/spirits. Whatever happened on Earth 25-30000 years ago, all these creation myths, language, art, mathematics, kingship, agriculture, are the direct result of the introduction of souls to primate biological organisms.
Our origins are veiled in mystery and metaphor. But the end result is that we as a species transitioned to soul vessel status 30 Thousand years ago. And this means that we now "know better", even though some forget this. This is speculative on my part, obviously, but I believe this is the correct medium for speculative alternative histories.
Animals are lower than us, we have dominion over them. This is not a license to be cruel or destructive, as many of our fellow humans take out their frustration on animals that don't know any better. Although they are, as everything else, connected to the spiritual, they just aren't on our level.
Yes we have to kill in order to eat. I don't think slaughterhouses are particularly moral or the terrible conditions our livestock are kept in. But we can cull animals humanely in order that they serve their purpose, which is to provide us sustenance.
I understand that I am leaving myself vulnerable, to the why can't higher beings use us the same way? But I think that once we came "online" as a species, we entered into a new existence with more complex rules, and that higher beings, by definition, would not regress to destroying us.
I am at work, wasting time, so I am not sure If I made myself clear enough.
