Quote Originally Posted by Grendel View Post
Well if a passion's untenable for the foreseeable future, if it's completely unfeasible given the context, then I'd say it's fair to call that passion "evil." Typically all the "bad" we recognize in the world tends to come from incompatible things being moshed together.

Like, at bottom, taken to its furthest extreme, the desire to "get a girl" is indistinguishable from a desire to chain a girl up in your closet - if you can get a girl to stick around short of chaining people up then there's no need to chain people up, and if you fear the consequences of chaining people up or it feels "wrong" to you, you're gonna resist that desire anyway.
Thoughtcrimes are slave morality. Or Christian morality, anyway. I don't see any use in ascribing morality to passions; it only ultimately matters what you do. Even if you do want to chain a girl up, there's nothing wrong with only trying for a girlfriend.


So if instead of "eating six babies every morning," your crime is being a congenitally ugly, disgusting monster, you can't just stop doing that crime. And while you're still "doing" the "crime" it's impossible to stop doing, you don't deserve to "get" a girl, because they won't ever gravitate themselves towards monsters like they would towards normal people - not unless you literally start acting like a monster and violating them, and I don't want to start violating people. I don't want people to violate me for being a disgusting monster.
Again, I don't see how wanting a girl or trying to get a girl is a crime, even if you'd also be satisfied with a girl chained up. And even if you've deformed your face or something, ambition is attractive and you can probably get someone, even if it takes a while. Unless you're also wheelchair-bound or dependent on others in some way, perhaps, which I admit would probably lower your chances considerably. In any case, as long as you don't kidnap anyone they'd have no reason to treat you like a monster.

So as a basic condition of survival, I have to oppose basic "human" desires in myself, because I'm not actually a human. It's a basic act of self-preservation. I will never be able to act like humans do. Sorry, but some creatures just cannot exist unless we live like slave-moralists. Necessity demands it.
If you aren't human then where did you come from?