Not by itself obviously. But it would make everything necessary to resolve the fundamental human problems (IE, the excising of the tumor of human nature) much much easier. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
human nature is the source of all meaning in the universe excising it, to better conform to your conception of good, is paradoxically nihilistic and authoritarian you are a person, these fundamental problems are intrinsic to people
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Replying to @averykimball
This is not tightly reasoned. First assertion wrong, second assertion pointless (almost everything is "nihilistic" from some vantage point, authorianism is a bullet I'm willing to bite in this context), last assertion depends on a circular definition of personhood.
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Replying to @averykimball
1. Everyone accuses anything reductionist of being nihilistic. But reductionism is a matter of degrees. Believing in one less "thing" than someone else doesn't make you a full blown nihilist any more than believing in one less god than someone else makes you an atheist.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
2. Human nature contains whatever the source of meaning is but not everything in human nature is necessary to whatever the source of meaning is
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
3. These problems are innate to humans, not people. There are potentially infinite variations of persons that are non-human and some of these don't have these intrinsic problems.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
oh, so some people will be infallible? they will never disagree with each other? are you sure you're not mistaking "people" for a "person"?
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Replying to @averykimball
There are subjective and objective domains and they are seperate.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
which is which, tho are you saying that fallibility isn't a fundamental, objective problem, or different willing isn't a fundamental, objective problem
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"An ye harm none, do what thou wilt" seems fine to me. But biology is fundamentally intermeshed with harm. You can't advocate biology and not be fascist. It doesn't matter that it's the status quo
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Replying to @Alephwyr
we are literally in a crisis in defining "harm" just because it's obvious to *you* what harm is, doesn't mean anything- if you think you're infallible, you're mistaken
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Replying to @averykimball
Everyone else's definition of harm seems to result in harming me. So I sort of don't have to care.
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