Kevin Simler

@hamandcheese (I agree with all of this...)

@KevinSimler So you can agree for welfare for ex, that the state can subsume the identical "economic" function, but leave something missing

@hamandcheese oh yeah, totally. state is medical safety net, but doesn't babysit your kids when you're sick... (for example).

@hamandcheese doesn't give you warm fuzzy community feelings (which are in a sense code for "these guys have my back")

@KevinSimler I still think warm feelings belittles the concept. Compare marital love (sacred) with economies of scale via mating (profane)

@KevinSimler Would love even be possible between two agents that instrumentalized each other that way?

@KevinSimler One might call love a kinda noble lie, a biophysical enchantment... maybe, but another approach says...

@KevinSimler at a discursive level, love is a transcendental / sui generis kind of fact. An "extra" on top of the profane functionalism