From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 38

Short−sighted as to ethics:
If we can’t see that there is only one survival and it’s the survival of everyone and everything, we’re too selfish to survive – or too short−sighted, which is a synonym –. Some may think they only live once, so the only thing that counts is granting themselves anything they can put their hands on in their limited time and space, and to hell with everyone and everything else: when life will present the bill, they will be dead dust anyway. Well, whether we live once or more, that’s beside the point: it’s from the community point of view that these people fall short of the minimum requirements. This obviously applies to the moronic variant of the apprentice sorcerer, too: in addition to having suppressive intentions and to being PTS of someone else's suppressive intentions, there is also being plainly reckless and irresponsible; indeed playing with fire without an inkling of what one is playing with falls quite short of such minimum requirements.

And it’s also worth highlighting a specific facet of our short−sightedness as to ethics due to the seriousness of its consequences. When we do not realise that life is a group effort and the only survival is that of everyone and everything, we judge the success of individuals by their individual “success”, by which we mistakenly mean the differential between their social standing and that of their fellows: the higher they stand above the others, the greater their “success”. Needless to say, if that’s the goal, one may decide to pursue it by pushing others down, isn’t it? Moreover, since on average a suppressive is more selfish than others, and also tends to spread suppressive ideas such as that “success” consists of just that very differential, as a result suppressives tend to achieve the highest differential, and we end up ranking as most “successful” just the very suppressive individuals at the root of our misfortunes. When they say, digging our own grave like good potential trouble sources…