Some Questions and Answers

Question: What is the difference between brainwashing, indoctrination, and education?
Answer: There is none.

Question: Is "morality" and "ethics" the same thing?
Answer: It depends on the aims and objectives relevant to the contexts in which that question could arise (pedagogical, political, epistemological, etc.).

Question: If I say "we're in a time of war," how would you answer the question?
Answer: By war, I take it you mean what Heraclitus called "polemos," a conflict that must inevitably end with the subjugation (or extinguishment) of the losing side? In short, a zero-sum game? If that is so, then perhaps we can open the way for such an act of distinguishing. By morality, then, we could say that it is the set of beliefs, inscribed in an institution or a discourse, that is inimical to the accomplishment of the task at hand, e.g. winning the war. And by ethics, we could say that it is the set of beliefs that could serve as a guide toward accomplishing said task at hand. War, of course, is an exceptional situation, and in an exceptional situation, all rules (i.e. the usual, or "normal," understanding of morality and ethics) are suspended, and new rules must be deployed. Unfortunately, I could only gesture towards such a conception.


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