Turning One's Back On Family

The catastrophic lie that family members are more valuable as humans because of the random circumstance of which parents or siblings they have can only be embraced on the basis of assumptions or emotionalism.  The notion of this being true is not logically possible but unverifiable.  It is an outright impossibility.  Everyone with a family cannot be worthy of more love, respect, kindness, or loyalty than everyone else outside of the family, or no specific family would end up actually deserving more loyalty than non-family members--though the simple truth that only human rights and individual moral standing could dictate what one deserves already makes this impossible on its own.  If someone rightly thinks that being biologically related to someone else does not make them better than anyone else and yet thinks family still deserves some special kind of loyalty, they are hypocrites who would encourage people to choose baseless commitment as if it was obligatory.  In addition to a disregard for truth, physical or psychological abuse is facilitated and protected in the name of this falsehood, and people who show mercy to the shallow, the arrogant, the cruel, the emotionalistic, or the unrepentantly hypocritical in their family only make themselves vulnerable to the possibility of more direct harm at their hands, not to mention exposure to more stupidity.

Family members, like anyone else, have to earn the right to be treated any better than human rights merit, with no one deserving any more than the baseline treatment called for by these rights unless they choose to holistically, sincerely align with reason at the expense of any pursuit in conflict with this.  People who crave the meaningless affection of irrationalistic family members often fail to even care as much about the actual human rights of others as they do about maintaining a cancerous, idiotic, intrinsically worthless kind of superficial unity with family members in spite of what they believe or have done.  Turning one's back on such family members when it is financially or emotionally easier to do so is not an evil betrayal, but a just outcome that they cannot possibly deserve to be spared from.  Thankfully, it is also a tactic that can be used to manipulate or punish irrationalists who are egoistic enough to think they are special because of a family connection that no one, unless there is some unprovable pre-conception existence, could possibly choose.

To show mercy or not show mercy to emotionalistic worshippers of family within one's own family is a matter of subjective willingness to coexist with them, or a choice to make an impact on them at a key time.  All the desperate pleading or threats of irrationalistic family members only exposes how unworthy they are of the deepest kind of relational love, acceptance, and peace, all of which can only be found in knowing reason and basking in this knowledge with others who seek the same.  With family members who cannot be chosen, which includes all family members besides spouses and potential children, there is no right to be unconditionally loved in a personal sense (as opposed to a resolute commitment to honoring their human rights regardless of who they are) or accepted simply on the basis of a happenstance blood tie.  Is one's sibling, parent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent rational?  Just?  Sincere and consistent in these qualities?  If not, they are no better than the fools of the world outside of one's family.

As someone who has had conversations with family members that emotionally devastated them, I have personally refused to show mercy in pivotal circumstances.  I have welcomed the pleasure of using words like blades without using them in Biblically unjust ways.  When you do this--not that there are many rationalists to do so--the family member(s) might weep or rage against you, but they, like all other irrationalists, deserve no peace in their delusions and, if they truly care about family even if only out of emotionalism, the knives of those words can penetrate them better than any mercy ever could.  This aggressive but rationalistic defiance is is there for anyone to find even if they are shackled to a family of intellectual and moral insects.  Show mercy if you wish, but to confuse mercy for a deserved sort of kindness is but one of the numerous forms of irrationality that makes someone undeserving of the fullest love in the first place.  Family can no more deserve the undeserved than anyone else; the logical impossibility of mercy being obligatory is so very relevant to how one should or should not treat irrationalists, even if they are your own family.