Is competence evil?

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If people were all incompetent there would be no war, slavery, prisons, injustice, torture, addictions, jobs, conquest, genocide. We'd all be vibing as hunter gatherers.

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[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

It you are an incompetent hunter gatherer you die very quickly.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It you are an incompetent hunter gatherer you die very quickly.

Not true. One could provide for themselves in the outdoors, without competence in gathering hunters.

[–]Evola 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Not to spoil the surprise but one competent person coming along and beaning you over the head with a rock and fucking your wife isn't going to care about your feckless platitudes.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Not to spoil the surprise but one competent person coming along and beaning you over the head with a rock and fucking your wife isn't going to care about your feckless platitudes.

I agree with this, based on personal experience.

Just ask your wife.

[–]David_Allen_Cope1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just ask Chris mccandless how that works out.

[–]DirewolfGhost 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why do you think humans evolved to be smart? To be smart. So we could be competent hunter gatherers.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right, but not competent, in gathering, hunters.

Accumulating hunters. Isn't useful.

Except maybe for building an army.
But not for survival on the land.

[–]Evola 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Competence is the opposite of evil because it means to make what's use of the available resources in the most effective manner.

If anything incompetent gathering would spoil or miss precious resources needed to survive winters.

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It takes organisation to commit genocide, yes. I kind of agree; smaller societies will have smaller problems. But a lot of the reasons we do get these things are due to both malice and incompetence.

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Look at Cambodia. They killed all people that were competent.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The nazis did that in Poland too.

And Mao in China

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, the world itself is evil.

/s/The_Matrix