The only problem with demanding the right to know and choose anything and everything, is we get the right to know and choose anything and everything.
Most of what I know, I now wish I did not know - which is simply the facts of what I or others have chosen to do. So it is not that I don't want to know, but that I wish certain things were never done, 'unknowable' to anyone, as it were... But that would restrict my rights! So what we have, is what we want, is what we've done, is what now fills our minds, hearts and soul. Two thoughts on this: First, God told mankind to not eat of the 'tree of knowledge'. He said we would die. The serpent, however, told us that knowing all and choosing ourselves, would make us 'like god.' Who can resist such a promise? They could not, Nietzsche could not*, Jesus was tempted to, and we succumb every day. (Genesis 3:5; Matthew 4:9) Secondly, Paul writes: 'They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator... Because of this, God gave them over...' (Romans 1:25-26) *'If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore, there are no gods!' (F.Nietzsche, 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', 1885)
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