> I observed that Solomon made a judgment based on the obvious fact that mothers have a natural compassion for their offspring.
A counter-observation: psychotically abusive mothers are a thing. And to Solomon: that which is applicable to the majority of the people does not need it to be said but reminded, yet it is the exception to the rule that causes the world so much grief. Assuming one can build greatness through a unifying law will ultimately lead to ruin. Parental abuse and social stigmatization are the core reasons for the creation of school shooters, even if they are from a well-off family. And even more comedically, it is likely there are genes tied to anti-social behavior, which is adjacent to harm towards others. Maybe technology was a holding cell, but same goes for illegal psychedelics and pornography. The bathmostat ("bathmos" = dignity, prestige self-regulation in the brain) are broken for such people, where SSRIs are designed to cure the ailment, but media oddly mislabel it as cure for depression until recent findings. SSRIs are another psychic holding cell, but what is the non-tech alternative? https://archive.ph/I3HXhhttps://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/shooters_myth_stable_home_1.15.pdf
Much of the problems related to apathy or even antipathy can only be dealt with through "rational" means (appeal to logic and personal benefit), since a rallying cry for empathy leads to extreme resistance for such troubled peoples. It might be best to assert that prestige, or in its less political form, dignity, is what the troubled need but are refused from time to time, which leads to civil instability (Turchin and Strauss-Howe both have their theories). Janne Miettinen noted that communal atomization and sexual promiscuity goes hand in hand, but it is still theoretical. To discover love in its purest form without scorn, would be the ultimate virtue. https://archive.ph/6hpAH
> I observed that Solomon made a judgment based on the obvious fact that mothers have a natural compassion for their offspring.
A counter-observation: psychotically abusive mothers are a thing. And to Solomon: that which is applicable to the majority of the people does not need it to be said but reminded, yet it is the exception to the rule that causes the world so much grief. Assuming one can build greatness through a unifying law will ultimately lead to ruin. Parental abuse and social stigmatization are the core reasons for the creation of school shooters, even if they are from a well-off family. And even more comedically, it is likely there are genes tied to anti-social behavior, which is adjacent to harm towards others. Maybe technology was a holding cell, but same goes for illegal psychedelics and pornography. The bathmostat ("bathmos" = dignity, prestige self-regulation in the brain) are broken for such people, where SSRIs are designed to cure the ailment, but media oddly mislabel it as cure for depression until recent findings. SSRIs are another psychic holding cell, but what is the non-tech alternative? https://archive.ph/I3HXh https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/shooters_myth_stable_home_1.15.pdf
Much of the problems related to apathy or even antipathy can only be dealt with through "rational" means (appeal to logic and personal benefit), since a rallying cry for empathy leads to extreme resistance for such troubled peoples. It might be best to assert that prestige, or in its less political form, dignity, is what the troubled need but are refused from time to time, which leads to civil instability (Turchin and Strauss-Howe both have their theories). Janne Miettinen noted that communal atomization and sexual promiscuity goes hand in hand, but it is still theoretical. To discover love in its purest form without scorn, would be the ultimate virtue. https://archive.ph/6hpAH