A little dabbling in resentment or revenge fantasies is only human, but it's not ultimately a serious path towards liberation. The brutal truth is that there will never come a day where justice is served--where the baddies have their heads mounted on pikes--perhaps should never.
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One of the most powerful anarchist critiques of "social justice" is a critique of "justice." The most efficient path to a better world, to the liberation of all, doesn't always look like balancing the scales. That's horrifying and gut-wrenching and hard to accept, but it's real.
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Replying to @rechelon @puellavulnerata
OMG, welcome to consequentialism. One step at a time out of the deontologist nightmare.
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Replying to @Plinz @puellavulnerata
Uh, been here a really long time, comrade.
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Replying to @rechelon @puellavulnerata
You'll know you arrived when it is no longer painful.
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Replying to @Plinz @puellavulnerata
I think staying in touch with baseline human heuristics is good consequentialist practice, there are reasons for the things we're overruling, just as it's important to understand fully why most people make the choices they make.
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Replying to @rechelon @puellavulnerata
I think it may sometimes be too easy to consider our own identification as a baseline condition. Perhaps there simply is no baseline, and humans evolved not to be good but to be effective? I suspect our species is really terrifying as shit.
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William MacAskill @willmacaskillOur descendants will probably see us as moral monsters. What should we do about that? I discuss moral uncertainty, utilitarianism, EA, my most unusual philosophical beliefs & how to avoid being a moral monster with@robertwiblin on the@80000Hours podcast: https://buff.ly/2mW7hma1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Plinz @puellavulnerata
Well modern W.E.I.R.D baseline in some substantive sense. And yes, of course our descendants will see us as moral monsters. But not so incidentally anarchists often get the best marks by later historians.
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Replying to @rechelon @puellavulnerata
I thought that outside of anarchist circles, anarchists are usually seen as batshit insane idealists that throw bombs to destroy the unjust and oppressive social infrastructure that incidentally got us where we are right now and also keeps us alive?
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(I know that the stereotype is unfair and does not do historical anarchism much justice.)
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