What evidence do you rely on to justify your judgement that the experts are telling you the truth?
Humans who are the most qualified to claim privileges under Aboriginal identity and enticed to claim associated special rights should be the first to renounce it, precisely because of those privileges. Choose Humanity as your only tribe. With this one move the entire edifice of tribal resentment would collapse, globally.
The question of Original Ownership (or Native Title) can be addressed in two different ways:
1. The idea that people of a particular race own the land just because other people of the same race once lived there is absurd and immoral; it devalues humanity for racial advantage.
2. Even if the idea of Original Ownership were valid it would still have no practical effect, because all humans share the same ancient ancestors. Ancestors of the alleged original owners of Australia were descendants of every human’s ancestors, our common ancestors, who belonged to the Earth. We are all related. We are ALL the original owners of the Earth.
Those aboriginal people who do not believe that ‘their land’ was stolen, who do not believe they are owed anything on account of their race, who do not want to be either celebrated or pitied because of their race, who do not want to be generalised as a race or tribe but as morally responsible individuals with full human rights, I am with them. They are my hope and they should become more politically active against misrepresentation by their media-appointed leaders. If they do nothing, if they say nothing, they are tacitly acquiescing to the cultivation of resentment.
1. The idea that people of a particular race own the land just because other people of the same race once lived there is absurd and immoral; it devalues humanity for racial advantage.
2. Even if the idea of Original Ownership were valid it would still have no practical effect, because all humans share the same ancient ancestors. Ancestors of the alleged original owners of Australia were descendants of every human’s ancestors, our common ancestors, who belonged to the Earth. We are all related. We are ALL the original owners of the Earth.
Those aboriginal people who do not believe that ‘their land’ was stolen, who do not believe they are owed anything on account of their race, who do not want to be either celebrated or pitied because of their race, who do not want to be generalised as a race or tribe but as morally responsible individuals with full human rights, I am with them. They are my hope and they should become more politically active against misrepresentation by their media-appointed leaders. If they do nothing, if they say nothing, they are tacitly acquiescing to the cultivation of resentment.
Cultural differences are irrelevant to mutual understanding if common rules of logic/sense are respected. Conversely, without a common standard of sense no understanding between cultures is possible, because what knowledge means to one culture is structurally inconsistent to another. Respecting other cultures for the sake of ones own culture being reciprocally respected, in lieu of rational resolution of cultural disagreements, is a capitulation to the primacy of nonsense and a commitment to violence as the ultimate arbiter of values and facts. The defining condition of Humanity is not culture or biological similarity but the universal rules of sense that constrain our capacity for meaning.
Tyranny, which is essentially a commitment to the primacy of the will unconstrained by common rationality, cannot be defeated by those who harbour tyranny within themselves, those who are tribal, cultural or ideological tyrants at heart. They do not object to tyranny in principle but only to being dominated by other tyrants. Their call to “unity against tyranny” aims to mobilise those who oppose tyranny in principle to this hypocritical end. Being weak does not make one right. Being dominated or victimised does not make one a friend of humanity and freedom. Beware of tyrants disguised as victims.
The statement “our values” is an oxymoron, as nonsensical as “my truth”. Values are either objectively true, therefore independent of your subjective point of view, therefore not “your values”; or there are no true values, therefore “your values” are wrong and must be rejected. When corporations use “our values” as a dogmatic justification for ideological tyranny, they are always wrong, both ethically and logically.
The primary value for consciousness, the intrinsic aim of consciousness that makes us human and our life worth living, is to generate meaning, a deeper and more integrated universe of meaning than the one we were born into. Creation of meaning is conditional on intentional action, reflexive comprehension and communication with other rational beings, and is commensurate with the capacity for adherence to the fundamental laws that govern the distinction between sense and nonsense.
It is a formally provable fact that every rational agent (Human) values being a rational agent. “In intending to φ we affirm that it is preferable (or more valuable) to φ than not to φ, where φ stands for 'exercise the capacity <to act in a particular way>'. Since φ amounts to 'now being an agent', the commitment to value φ is a value-commitment to 'now being an agent'.” (Kowalik 2020) A crucial part of this value-commitment is the meaning of <acting in a particular way>'; meaning that is more integrated (fits in a system that contains fewer inconsistencies), is more expansive and detailed, allows greater capacity <to act in particular ways> and to reliably realise our intentions. All other ‘true’ values are logically derived from this intrinsic value-commitment.
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Ontological-Transcendental Defence of Metanormative Realism
If there is something (P) that every possible agent is committed to value, and certain actions or attitudes either enhance or diminish P, then normative claims
Aboriginal Identity is already a huge ‘moral’ ennoscriptment. Kids who are pathologised at school with the doctrine that they are racially guilty, that being non-aboriginal they can never truly belong, that their children and their descendants will always be just second-class citizens, because they were not here first, they are not the “original race”, are bound to seek to escape this racial stigma, even make themselves believe that they are Aboriginal. If the Australian government were honest, they would greet all incoming migrants with a giant Red and Black billboard: “Welcome to Australia. We are a Nativist-supremacist country, so you will never really belong.”
Do not be bullied or intimidated by transgender identity activists or employers who adopt their ideology. Their bigoted demands (to recognise trans males as women and trans females as men) are easily defeated by logic. Logic aways wins because it is the structure of being. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial
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Reverse discrimination and contradictions in law
My ‘Rapid Response’ to an article in the British Medical Journal was finally accepted and published, 5 months after the date of submission. https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008684.responses#fundamental-values-cannot-be-defeated-by-the-argument-from-proportionality
The brain is an idea that consciousness generated to explain itself, to make sense of itself. The brain exists in the mind, as an image of itself.
Homosexuality is an abnormality of the sexual function. This does not make gay people immoral, just like having a birth defect does not make anyone immoral. Conversely, stating the fact that homosexuality (in fact, everything LGBTIQ) is functionally abnormal is not any more hateful than stating the fact that a patient was born with a minor abnormality (doctors don’t hate you when they say you are born with a defect). Normalisation of sexual abnormality is disinformation. Wrong sexual messaging can also be harmful to children. https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/homosexuality-is-abnormal-but-not-morally-wrong/
The concept of gender has no grounding apart from sex, it becomes meaningless. That is precisely why transgender activists refuse to define “woman”; to them it could be anything, therefore it is nothing.
No wonder there are no high quality, saline placebo controlled studies comparing longevity of vaccinated vs vaccine-free humans. They already know that honest research of this kind would destroy the vaccine industry. “In this natural experiment vaccinated children had 5-fold higher mortality than not-yet-DTP-vaccinated children.” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(17)30046-4/fulltext#%20
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The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural…
We examined the introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and oral polio
vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s.
vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s.
If blackface is racist then drag queens and cross-dressers are misogynist, engaging in caricaturish mockery of womanhood.
Chernobyl was in effect a real-world experiment, revealing the scale of a nuclear fallout in a populated area (comparable to 400* atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima) and the rate of subsequent habitat recovery. A dirty bomb or a tactical nuke would have a fraction of the environmental impact, so I expect that one will be used in Ukraine; not because it will win the conflict or anything like that, but because it would be a monumental but low cost news event, capable of putting the fear of god into the entire world population. The corporate media would kill for a story like that, literally.
* “Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident.” https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/058/28058918.pdf
* “Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident.” https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/28/058/28058918.pdf