Kenneth McKendrick

So, you know, if I look outside my window and there's like a bunch of trees there and I can look at that and, oh, that's, you know, that's $50 of lumber or something like that, as opposed to seeing the trees, right?

Treating it like an object or as a commodity.

So if you have that subject-object model,

and you really double down on that model, then you're gonna be turning subjects into objects all the time.

This might be good in medicine, where you don't really want the doctor doing surgery and then...

crying and weeping at the pain that they're causing your body.

You do want them to take up an objectivating perspective.

You want them to treat you like an object.

If you're about to get hit by a car, you want someone to treat you as an object and just push you out of the way.

Like, okay, so this is how much you weigh.

This is the kind of force that's going to be applied to get you out of the way, right?

But there's other ways in which we're treated like objects, you know, maybe by an employer or maybe by peers or students or anybody, right?

Our subjectivity is no longer seen or recognized.

And being treated as an object, as a thing and not as a person is very, very painful.

You know, in terms of evil, I'm interested in how subjects get turned into objects.

And sometimes it can come across as kind of loony, but we're really, really good at animating things all the time, like our stuffies, all of the stuff around us.

I mean, it makes a lot of sense to me.

I think we would probably live better if we lived treating the world alive.

And so evil is part of that because...

When someone talks about good and evil, they're saying, okay, what's healthy is the good stuff and the harmful is the bad stuff.