Kai is Worse than Onision (w. Plato & Socrates)

your husband Greg your husband Chi
not only sent me new photos not only flirted with me while I was underage sent me gifts everything also briefly hid me and our friendship from you so how about you in like investigate the supposed innocence of your husband not like you're any [ __ ] better but still I've already made one video reflecting on the peculiar extent to which people seem to avoid blaming CAI initials husband also known as in his hands wife the mother of his two children but who now identifies as a transgender male people seem to avoid blaming Chi and place all of the blame on an SEM and I think that is because of the perception that while a Nissen is being dishonest and manipulative intentionally they presume that Chi is being dishonest and manipulative unintentionally that one of them is lying out of strength and the other one is merely lying out of weakness and I think it's really worth reflecting lying out of weakness doesn't that make you a worse person and not a better one kai talks about running away with people as manipulation he's have been become as manipulative as Greg I do believe that more than likely is true at this point what upsets me is Sarah doesn't deserve to be treated like this Sarah was made to feel like this was right from a young age as was I and it what we didn't realize until we got older as this is not right there is a philosophical dialogue from Plato featuring Socrates that's called the lesser Hippias in this philosophical dialogue the question being bandied about is ostensibly whether it is morally better to lie intentionally or to lie unintentionally if a man runs slowly in a race as a kind of contrivance as a kind of intentionally deceptive plan then it must be that he has the potential he has the ability he has the strength to run quickly in the race he's just choosing not to so the race is fixed for some reason for some evil purpose he's pretending to be slow but in fact he could be running quickly such a man would be superior to someone who's running slowly because they have no other choice the other examples used are a little bit more provocative like someone who intentionally does the reckoning wrong in a math problem they must have really mastered the art of arithmetic someone who deceives you with geometry someone who could you know solve a geometrical problem or use geometry to some purpose and who misleads you they must have mastered the art of geometry whereas someone who just can't do it at all they can neither come to the right solution to the problem nor can they come to the wrong solution or can they deceive you so the whole dialogue is playing a kind of protracted word game and there's a lot of comedy is a lot of a lot of things in there but it's still getting at something we can all relate to many years ago during a very dark and lonesome period in my life I read the autobiography of Charlie Chaplin the actor Charlie Chaplin and you might be surprised to know there were a lot of odd - philosophical reflections in the autobiography of Charlie Chaplin at one point he recalls spending time with the sort of circus performer in the theatre this was when Charlie Chaplin was a very very young man he hadn't yet become rich and famous and this circus performer had devised a trick an act where he would balance a balance of pool cue balance you know the type of stick used at a billiard table he would balance a pool cue on his chin straight up and then using his two hands he would throw one billiard ball up and have it land on the top of the pool cue and and balance there remain there on top will do and then he would throw up a second ball and it would balance on top tether ball and he would you know stand there wavering back and forth keeping it on balance just using his chin anyway so Charlie Chaplin witnessed this guy rehearsing and perfecting this act and then the circus performer showed it to the head of the theatre whoever it was he was auditioning for and the head of the theatre said it'll be more impressive for the audience if you can miss a few times if you can seem to be struggling to do it as opposed to doing it effortlessly you know you throw it up once and you miss the whole audience goes oh well you know you lead the audience to sort of buildup of tension and then finally you get both of the billiard balls balanced on top and the whole crowd applauds he wanted some more theatricality of this kind and that and the performance and the the circus performer said back I know the trick well enough to perform it on stage but I have not yet mastered it enough to miss and Charlie Chaplin just said that was that was a story that was the moral of that story that really stayed with him for the rest of his life that sometimes it's harder to deceive than than to be truthful or it shows a kind of mastery to be able to feign that you can't do something when you can lying out of weakness doesn't that make you a worse person and not a better one being manipulative out of weakness doesn't that make you a worse person not a better than one seducing these people and now now this allegation from Regina this is really alleging you're seducing a minor all these various things if someone were doing that out of weakness some were doing that involuntarily not as a kind of canny and intentional act wouldn't that make them worse and not better and you know my own thought on this which is not found in that dialogue of Plato it's not spoken by Socrates at all the person who lies to you and deceives you intentionally the person who's aware and conscious of the act the person who's in control they are better than the important respect that they can learn from the mistake and they can change the person who does evil things involuntarily the person who lies there gives in to desire whatever might be out of weakness rather than at a strength there's no way that they can change and there's no way that you can improve their behavior by reasoning with them what is evil being self-centered being self-indulgent giving in to short-term thinking refusing to think through the long-term consequences for yourself and others in practice in our personal lives and even in politics most of the time it's close enough it's close enough to what evil means and yeah some people do evil things I would have strength and some people do evil things out of weakness and there's a natural tendency to make excuses for the weak but the strong the strong at least are susceptible to improvement the strong or easier to reason with they're easier to change