@Meaningness I read your piece on specialness (and saw you intend to write an expanded version. Hopefully maybe soon?
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Seems important + counter-intuitive :o
Why is it 'specialness is a broken concept' instead of 'everyone is special'?
Can you make your own 'cosmic plan'?
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“Everyone is special” (a “muddled middle” in my jargon) shares with the actual specialness stance a confusion of factual and moral equality. People aren’t factually equal (a concrete and obvious fact). People are morally equal (an abstract, difficult, non-obvious claim).
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So then to specialness itself. In virtue of what are you special? When you adopt the stance, usually there is something factual that seems to confirm it.
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