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Ideas for Hermarchus, E.M. Cioran and Simone Weil

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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
23811 If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil]
23868 The pleasure of completing tasks motivates just as well as the whip of slavery [Weil]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
23819 Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
23818 We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
23901 Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil]
23753 People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil]
23841 By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
23864 Inequality could easily be mitigated, if it were not for the struggle for power [Weil]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
23835 People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil]
23751 Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil]
23752 Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
23820 People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
23813 Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil]
23757 The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil]
23761 Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
23852 To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / d. Reform of offenders
23764 The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil]
23821 Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil]
23763 Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
23827 Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war
23880 When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / d. Non-combatants
23850 The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
23858 War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
19625 The ideal is to impose a religion by force, and then live in doubt about its beliefs [Cioran]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
23851 Education is essentially motivation [Weil]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
19637 History is wonderfully devoid of meaning [Cioran]
23873 Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous [Weil]
19605 Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history [Cioran]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
19610 Religions see suicide as insubordination [Cioran]
19611 No one has ever found a good argument against suicide [Cioran]
19609 If you have not contemplated suicide, you are a miserable worm [Cioran]
23067 Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran]
23860 Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality
19639 We all need sexual secrets! [Cioran]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
6005 Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]