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The boomer? Yes, he acted fine. The guy on crutches was annoying and entitled and I don't want to pay taxes to defend him.Apparently this is the pole vs the sikh in britain, got the case wrong. So, in every warlike society, murdering over a quarrel was seen as excessive. please read a book like Romeo and Juliet, the Bible, the Iliad, literally almost any pre modern or very early modern text on this.
Modernity favors blacks, Muslims, the low IQ, and people with ADHD. That's what the fertility trends show. Capitalism rewards your type of person with money, but they are so unfit and contrary to nature that they fail to even reproduce with it. But they spend on it interfering with high quality peoples' reproduction.
You said I am stupid and cannot see the whole system, but then you pull out this ready-made-for-you concept of „caste.” Higher men are fine at being warriors but they are not just of a „particular caste”. They can also be good merchants and priests and these things are not even necessarily separate professions. You are using limiting concepts that don't seem warranted.
Want is used in that, it behaves as to achieve the thing which it „wants.” That does not mean it has qualia; the whole issue is it's a powerful pattern, like a storm, but it has no qualia, also like a storm. And like a bad storm it can wipe out humans, and it's worse than any storm in recorded history, it has severely damaged our gene pool.
Capitalism is that which has enabled the lowly to have power over the high. It's like the devil and the lowly have a deal with it. So capitalism reproduces lowly people in exchange for the destruction of the high. It's a util black hole, it kills off beautiful qualia havers and leaves the dreadful while capitalism itself only consume utils and doesn't actually have them.
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