Some people feel our human experience is diminished if we understand how it works cognitively, particularly in the case of love & art.
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You also have to define what you mean by "good," "bad," "meaningful," etc. before you can talk about them and definitions entail premises.
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Yes. As a humanist, I find Nazi experiments bad. Eugenicists find them good.
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So we reject moral relativism then (I hope) because one is clearly good and the other clearly bad...
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I think so, yes, because my premise is that individual human wellbeing matters. Others disagree & we need to show why they're wrong.
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This is why I suggested JP interview - in it he addresses this very powerfully from evolutionary perspective
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I don't have much confidence in him. He tends to talk a lot of obscure weirdness about religion, gender & truth.
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He rewards close engagement. He is absolutely for each individual as intrinsically valuable and important
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OK, I agree with him on free speech. I just prefer not to listen to him too much generally.
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