Do you think that in the long run, the best political order and the best moral values will prevail, or is it necessary to implement normative stopgaps against the dangers of unconstrained social and memetic evolution?
I thought so as well, but if it was true then everyone should subscribe to some variant of Social Darwinism as their meta theory once they understand all options. Instead, most activism is deontological or utopian.
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Deontology is dumb: it prioritizes adherence to rules, blinding people to possible future situations, including the malleability of the rule structure itself. Utopian thinking is dumb: it assumes a perfect end-state without recognizing infinite/infinitesimal fallibilism.
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The appeal of deontological thinking is that it intellectually complements simple moral intuitions. Utopian thinking is a kind of dramatically simplified consequentialism.
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I think this is true. Cultures compete, even if only with other possible cutlures, to optimise a particular set of social values. Our cultural ideas can result in anhiliation, or various degrees of life and love toward flourishing and paradise.
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We’re all getting a lesson in consequentialism now. Although it’s not always clear what people want to maximise for....
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