Basically I thought everything would work out better if everyone tried to maximize total net happiness.
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People could sort of agree to strive toward rational universalism, right? We could at least all unite behind the idea of
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wanting the best for Americans as a whole and agreeing with basic American principles like freedom of speech and the neutral rule of law,
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right? And, ok, I did realize that others weren't really going along with this, but that just meant to me that we should promote it harder.
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Well eventually I realized that this wasn't working. I realized that no matter how much I tried to convince others to think that way, they
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just wouldn't do it. I realized that society is like a bunch of prisoner's dilemmas, and you can't just keep trying to cooperate when
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others defect. I realized that others were fundamentally hostile to my interests and even to common interests when I saw the "white
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privilege" meme pushed harder and harder. I saw that we couldn't agree on basic principles of self-defense or even on the nature of reality
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with the Trayvon case. And so I stopped believing that being a sucker was morally good and that we should keep trying
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to cooperate with everyone and started believing in group interests.
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