My general social theory priors:
1. Compassion for all; from the inside, everything is reasonable
2. Narratives heavily shape our social reality and are hard to detect
3. What induces suffering is arbitrary and influenced by incentives
4. Can also have compassion for incentives
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as in: Nobody is evil here, all pain is real - but a lot of the ways we handle our understanding of the world is "made up" socially by those around us, even the real pain that we feel, and thus even that should be dissected.
Despite this - maintain compassion for what you dissect
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Narratives are easier to detect when you assume that everything is narrative. “Narratives heavily shape our social reality” is a narrative. This tweet is itself a bunch of narratives.
Everything beyond the immediate contents of conscious experience is a story we tell ourselves.
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Definitely. This is why I often put "nothing I say is true, do not ascribe truth unto my words" at the beginning of my blog posts.
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Morality must be split between consciousnesses and non-consciousnesses. The former should use an intentionalidt framework, the latter a consequentialist one. An effect can evil, regardless of the intention behind it. A person can be evil, regardless of how they behave.
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