A "Darwinian Left" isn't coherently constructible.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @edwest
"Anti-Darwinism" is as close to a concise definition of the Left as you're going to find.
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Replying to @Outsideness @edwest
still in doubt on that. what do you see wrong with Singer's take?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @edwest
He imports a moral framework from the spectral plane, rather than building with what Darwin provides.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @edwest
I can only quote from The Book of Gnon: "Fact / value orthogonalism is a Leftist Abomination."
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Does this mean the 'Is-ought' issue is...not one?
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Naturally.
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*shuffles uncomfortably*
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What we "ought" to do is not detachable from learning about what works. The (dominant) alternative is deontological hubris.
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well, Spencerian "law of equal freedom" used to work well. probably that doesn't sound leftist anymore
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