Is fear...

[Gora_Kala]

Re: Is fear…

@psyah

Peace Gora Kala

The god of devils - why did you use this self-created metaphor to represent the term “root cause”? The term “god” was enough … although I dislike that word … I prefer to use “instigator” or “initiator” instead.

According to Plato a candidate for root cause cannot be the real root cause if it’s presence is responsible for making two opposites manifest. For example …

There is a medicine X - Three people are ill, all three take the medicine, one dies slowly, another dies quickly and the third gets better.

The one who gets better medicine X worked for him, the one who dies quickly the medicine was poison for him, the one who dies slowly the medicine was not suitable to cure his particular illness.

We cannot therefore say that medicine X is the cure to illness, but we can say medicine X is the cure to illness of a given variety provided the person is not allergic to the medicine.

In which case “fear” cannot be the “root cause” for immorality … it has to be more sophisticated than that … I follow to say that it is “misplaced fear whilst having imbalanced wisdom” that will always lead to immorality. In this case morality is taken to be what the person himself considers to be moral and not imposing my idea of morality.

No, I am not comparing myself with Shakespeare, just to let you know, he “invented” or “coined” thousands of words. Language, my friend, is not divine to its entirety, it evolves and that is exactly why I use “self-created” metaphor. More so being a poet (also, and now blushing) plain words starts dying if I don’t add symbols. I, therefore, humbly request to please allow me to use words with the freedom of choice……Thanks.

With that said, I don’t mean that every word or metaphor that has evolved is an epic.

I agree a candidate for the root cause may not be the root cause in all situations, yet must have manifested a lot to be designated as one. I can understand the symbolic connection in your example to the question that I asked but you may also know that there is always a point to start with. A discourse, be it political, intellectual or academic always finds its way unless the intention is to make it happen.
I agree fear should not be “root cause” for every immorality, neither did I say that yet it is one of the reasons that I wanted to discuss.

I liked “misplaced fear and imbalance wisdom” though I can argue that wisdom cannot be imbalanced, if it is then it is not wisdom because wisdom is what balances the imbalance, yet a self proclamation does not make one wise.