He doesn't mean that either, it's complicated, skip to the 1 the point if u want, but it's peppered throughout https://youtu.be/6G59zsjM2UI
So do we all. I say it should be evidenced-based & worked out according to principles, not archetypes &narratives that are meaningful to ppl
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Well you're right that he agrees with pomos on one thing, there are an infinite number of interpretations as to what you ought to do.
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Yes & these are best set out by making clear arguments based on consistent ethical principles, facts & consequences.
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Which going on about eg, male archetypes of the individual & female archetypes of the mother only gets in the way of.
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If we want to look at gender differences, we do better to go with facts about the brain & data sets & apply principles of non-discrimination
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Where do you get the principles from though? You have to make a non-evidence based value judgement at some point.
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Yes & you have to set them out clearly & justify them with recourse to data, consequences.
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I think you would agree that you must nest those value judgments in history/evolution as well?
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I don't know what that means. We can certainly look at history & evolutionary psychology as underlying values we have when we argue for them
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I think it might mean giving credence to ideas and customs just cos they're there and are regarded as important in case they actually are
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Yes, that is a problem. That's how we ended up with Christianity for so long & it took 1000 years to get back to science.
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What if a custom is critically important but no one really knows why
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Then we say it's critically important but no-one really knows why. So easy. Don't need to confuse it with evidence-based knowledge.
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No one necessarily knows it's important too though, I guess
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Then it won't be. It becomes important to people if they find it important.
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