01-23-2014, 12:00 AM
Littlepaw wrote:I said eradicate bigot ism from our selves
you said eradicate playing tennis
If I stop playing tennis I could surely enjoy watching a tennis game but if I eradicated tennis from my self? All traces of tennis removed, how could I recognize it then?
Can we eradicate tennis from our self?
what is the self ?
So are you asking if we could recognize bigotry if we eradicated all knowledge of it from ourselves, wiping it out of our minds completely? I would think in that case we would not be able to recognize it. I'm not sure if that means we wouldn't be affected by it though. There's an arguement that says a person could walk out of jail by erasing all knowledge of the walls enclosing them from their mind. It's also been said that none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The walls of bigotry are a bit different than a prison cell. Many men will not consider walking around wearing makeup and dresses because of bigotry. A lot of those men are not aware that bigotry is what took considering that option away from them in the first place and don't seem to even know that specific piece of bigotry exists. Perhaps in some deep, dark part of their mind their is a tinge of awareness of it and if that were removed they would consider the option. I don't know, and I'm really not qualified to answer that, but I certainly hope all us humans can manage to eradicate or at least minimize bigotry.
you said eradicate playing tennis
If I stop playing tennis I could surely enjoy watching a tennis game but if I eradicated tennis from my self? All traces of tennis removed, how could I recognize it then?
Can we eradicate tennis from our self?
what is the self ?
So are you asking if we could recognize bigotry if we eradicated all knowledge of it from ourselves, wiping it out of our minds completely? I would think in that case we would not be able to recognize it. I'm not sure if that means we wouldn't be affected by it though. There's an arguement that says a person could walk out of jail by erasing all knowledge of the walls enclosing them from their mind. It's also been said that none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The walls of bigotry are a bit different than a prison cell. Many men will not consider walking around wearing makeup and dresses because of bigotry. A lot of those men are not aware that bigotry is what took considering that option away from them in the first place and don't seem to even know that specific piece of bigotry exists. Perhaps in some deep, dark part of their mind their is a tinge of awareness of it and if that were removed they would consider the option. I don't know, and I'm really not qualified to answer that, but I certainly hope all us humans can manage to eradicate or at least minimize bigotry.