Aesthetics precedes ethics
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Replying to @simplic10
Explains the impulse behind cultural relativism? So cool and exotic are the foreigners that they can be forgiven sins against my ideology
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But my own culture contains ingroups and outgroups wc I model at high resolution and grade aesthetically
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So any culture in which I (think I) can comprehend the cultural factions loses its relativism/immunity.
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@simplic10 This seems like a good insight but I’m not following how it has to do with aesthetics.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 Maybe it’s just “in the Bad Old Days we thought all inscrutable aliens were bad, but moral people now know they are Noble Savages1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@simplic10 They’re just as inscrutable, but now we know chopping people’s heads off is totally valid in their culture and we can’t judge it1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@simplic10 Most people think the only thing worth knowing about anything is “Good Or Bad?” Inscrutable foreigners are now homogeneously Good
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