The Answer to Life, or not?
But actually, my theories ARE NOT the answer to life. How can this be true?
Well, it IS the answer to life for "innocent enough" people. But if you are too selfish to listen, it isn't the answer that you need.
But what if someone is purely self-interested? Where will they get "the answer to life" from? Well... not from here. Perhaps they don't need an answer, but a problem. A problem that makes them WANT to find the "one answer" that always makes sense and explains everything. (everything important, like about morality, not unimportant stuff like explaining everything in physics or chemistry).
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So why won't self-interested people listen?
The problem is that they don't want to believe there is something lacking, and missing in their soul, that in a sense, they are wrong and inferior for lacking natural-respect or true-care. It would make them feel bad. Self-interested people don't do things that feel bad, "just to do the right thing".
There is no way to get the message through to them. They walk off at the first moment an innocent being tells them they are selfish. It's OK for them to hear "everyone is selfish" because that doesn't make them look bad! But for an innocent person to tell them that, they just walk off. They don't want to know.
They lie so much, they destroy all energy used through. It becomes impossible to get the message through. That it is possible to exist and be innocent at the same time. They might not always act so bad, but talking about specific instances rather than general theory, and instances that are important, is when their resistance becomes complete. They will never admit they did anything morally wrong, and that an innocent being did everything morally right.
So, why? Why is it OK for them to believe they and everyone else is purely self-interested... but bad to be told that some others are innocent? Because if they admit it, it would force them to "return stolen energy", and to stop stealing it, and even help purely innocent beings, who deserve help but weren't getting it.
They don't want to "return stolen energy". They feel it as a loss. A self-interested person does not do things that feel like a loss. Even if it means giving something back to the person they stole from. They'll return something if it makes them feel better, but not if it makes them feel worse.
In this case, it only feels like a loss. They don't feel like they have to give it back. They can't see how they are harming themselves. An innocent person could try explaining how their selfishness is harming themself. But they won't listen. They would think that he is harming himself.
I'm not sure if it's a technical thing that stops them seeing, or a "they don't deserve it" thing, or maybe both. Or maybe them not deserving to understand, is the same as the technical thing?
By "Technical thing", I mean where an innocent person tries to tell them that they need to believe they are selfish, and wrong for being that way, and it will help them. But they destroy the message before they get to see that it will help them, and so destroy their chance to fix and change themself.