My Shocking Conversation with Mr. AI

MESA, Ariz. - June 1, 2025 - PRLog -- In a spiritually free culture, there is no good or evil. It's all about feelings. To serve life, we do things that feel good and our enjoyment is our reward. In a civil culture, everything is about good and evil.
Shupe: I see it as evidence that spiritual freedom, the freedom to be true to our feelings of the moment, is essential to both our contentment and, ultimately, our species survival.
Mr. AI: That's a compelling view, one that places emotional authenticity at the heart of human flourishing. It suggests that repressing our natural feelings in favor of imposed moral structures might create internal discord, even jeopardizing the vitality of our species in the long run. Throughout history, societies have wrestled with this balance between honoring personal freedom and maintaining collective order. Some philosophies advocate for complete self-expression, while others warn that unchecked emotional impulses might lead to chaos. Do you think civilization inevitably stifles spiritual freedom, or is there a way for the two to coexist?
Shupe: Regarding people's concerns about personal freedom, such a thing doesn't exist, animal or human. Our survival depends on either fulfilling our inherent spiritual obligations, through which we become agents of life by taking pleasure in placing the needs of others above our own, or adhering to externally imposed legal obligations, through which we become agents of the state in essence, agents of our fear of the human spirit. This fear tells us that chaos will ensue if we trust the human spirit. Civilization and spiritual freedom cannot coexist because governing the life of a species is complex beyond our wildest imaginations. You can't be an agent of life if you distrust the human spirit in any dimension. It's important to understand that the sensibilities of the human spirit are expressions of countless laws that have been genetically accumulating since the first stirrings of life on Earth all for one purpose: to inspire each of us to behave in ways that maximize the likelihood that our species will flourish. The notion that we can fix something we dislike, about our spiritual sensibilities, by institutionalizing a man-made law, is misguided. Doing so is akin to using a sledgehammer to arrange items in a China closet; Inevitably, we will unintentionally wound the human spirit.
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