I had a bit of an epiphany and I'm not sure where to post this. This is my sincere effort to not be a troll and post the clearest version of the leftist's world view as I can - AND it's consequences. Here goes.
Undeserved suffering is evil. Undeserved suffering is the only evil there is. Deserved suffering is fine, so you can torture Nazis - they deserve it. You can also suffer to get a better job or position in life, that is wanted suffering. While it isn't good, it isn't evil.
Since undeserved suffering is the ultimate evil and the only evil there is, we must rearrange government and society to eliminate all unwanted suffering. You can change your body, change your sex. You can decide to be anything at all as long as it alleviates or removes unwanted suffering.
Abortion is seen as a heroic act because it removes the unwanted suffering of the mother, and the child growing in a disadvantaged household will suffer undeservedly so aborting the pregnancy is a doubly heroic act. Suffering is the only evil. Even if it is murder they don't care. Murder isn't evil, only suffering is evil. Murder is only evil if it causes someone to suffer, the same with lying. Lying is only wrong if it makes someone suffer.
Here is the poison in the ideology.
Are you going to suffer things in life that you don't want to? Yes. With almost absolute certainty you will suffer things you don't want to. Suffering is the only and ultimate evil.
They might not say it explicitly but since suffering is evil and all who exist are almost guaranteed to suffer - existence itself is evil. They will deny this, but the rampant nihilism on the left all but proves my point.
The left believes that the very act of existing is evil.
Need a carbon tax to save the planet but it will kill a billion people? Not really a problem because you are ending their suffering - existing is evil and with fewer people we will be better able to mitigate their suffering.
I can give a good rebuttal with the Catholic world view.
Suffering is good. Unwanted suffering is good, necessary and even a gift from God. All of the most well known saints have suffered in the most horrible ways, sometimes at the hand of the very Church they served.
It isn't an exact opposite because suffering isn't the highest good, but it does reverse most of the leftist world view. If even suffering is good, useful and profitable - then ALL of existence and creation is good and right. Erasing people from it without a very good cause is evil. Lying and every other sin is evil because they all twist and distort a persons relationship with existence.
I could probably expand on this more if needed, but I am wore out. I am juggling work and posting.... Whew, oh how I suffer for you....
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