Darwinian competition among small states only lets you compare their local effectiveness, when the question is how they affect the world.
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@MemberOfSpecies Universalist utility evaluation might seem intuitively fair, but the only radical realization of 'fairness' is heat-death.
@UF_blog then in addition to moral disagreements I think that isn't going to make a good rhetorical case to listeners with different values.
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@MemberOfSpecies There are only a few key arguments that matter -- and by 'arguments' I mean exchanges with specific people. -
@MemberOfSpecies If you imagine an argument embracing the whole world, realism has been dropped somewhere way back on the road.
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@MemberOfSpecies There's so much universalism / globalism baked into this cake (as I'm sure you'd agree), that I want to start over.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MemberOfSpecies The most effective response to "listeners with different values" is to have pre-engineered a non-shared polity.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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