In the long run, the most successful ideologies are going to be those that are best aligned with evolution. Unfortunately, evolution tends to be very unpleasant for its participants. At some point, we may have to choose between favoring ethics or life.
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Replying to @Plinz
Also ethics is a wide field, and I don't see a need to choose between ethics and life; ethics is about right and wrong, and what you said is we might be forced to do the wrong thing according to some ethics. Ethics that doesn't properly weigh the fundamental value life is flawed
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Replying to @pavel23
What is the "proper weight" of the value of life? For instance, I value my fundamental integrity higher than my life. Do I have flawed ethics? What about anti-natalism?
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Replying to @Plinz
As intelligent human beings we are not slaves to our genes though; the human brain can probably adopt arbitrary value systems, making your life or the life of anyone else be less important than an idea or meme.
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I suspect that most people have no agency over which values or gods they adopt. We are not the first intelligent hominid, but perhaps the first programmable one.
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