Anyone want a series of tweets about #NRx and morality?
I think the most important principle is that morality should be viewed from a Darwinian perspective. Moralities that cause the people/groups
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who practice them to be replaced or eliminated die out, while moralities that increase survival thrive.
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The most important question for morality is, "Does this increase the survival of your or your group?"
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If your morality is, "let's care about everyone in the world equally," you and your morality will quickly be eliminated. Adopting Africans
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due to some flawed utilitarian calculus isn't going to perpetuate you or your morality.
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of the unavoidable changes of modernity--we can't and may not want to revert modern technological changes.
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Most morality may be thought of as a means of encouraging cooperation to maximize group benefit over individual self-interest.
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Morality helps people move from defect-defect equilibrium to cooperate-cooperate. A successful morality increases the chances of group
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survival through cooperation. Note that cooperating while other parties are defecting ends up reducing survival--cooperation needs to be
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contingent on reciprocation.
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There's an intimate relationship between biology and morality.Morality is not just learned memes, but also instincts and innate inclinations
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Many moral memes are passed from parent to child, so it's hard to distinguish instinct from learning.
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The ethnonationalism of
#NRx comes from the intersection of these biological inclinations, which are on average different in different -
genetic clusters, and the game theory model of morality.
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#NRx is not agnostic about who survives and what morality survives. We want to survive, and we have preferences. We don't want humans to -
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Civilization has brought us vast improvements in material conditions, life expectancy, technology, and quality of life. Civilization has
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greatly reduced suffering and violence.
#NRx is deeply interested in the long-term survival of civilization-particularly Western Civilization - 1 more reply
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