If your ethical system is not compatible with the actual conditions of the physically realized universe, it violates a fundamental ethical axiom. You cannot behave ethically if you are allowed to lie to yourself.
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Replying to @Plinz
You are a human. You can't behave ethically. It's not in your genes. All your ancestors lied to themselves, and it helped, and now here you are.
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Replying to @KR_Sayers
To the contrary, my eternalist predisposition may stem not just stem from premature Romantic poisoning but from a genetic prior. We are not just driven by opportunistic impulses, but by a need to fit into a spiritual harmony with the greater civilization
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Replying to @Plinz
The desire to fit into the group would be beneficial to the genes of the individual, and therefore opportunistic, wouldn't it? What is a civilization if not a more complex manifestation of the tribe?pic.twitter.com/9I2SLl5x0p
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Replying to @KR_Sayers
What if your wired priors tell you that nontranscendentalists have an incomplete soul and you cannot marry into their clans
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Replying to @Plinz
They don't, but I suspect that's because I have an incomplete soul and the strong desire to pollute more noble lineages.
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It's a purely phenomenological statement, not a moral one. I perceive my own wiring as likely inferior to some of the alternatives.
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