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Sep 21, 2021

a burrito sounds like a great meditation object to me! you can ponder the entire chain of causality that causes burritos to appear where you can eat them. wild stuff

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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Sep 21, 2021

ha i actually had in mind the burrito's end of the story but that also works. like the ingredients being grown and the truckers shipping them across the country and stuff

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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Sep 21, 2021

food supply chains are wild huh

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Sep 21, 2021

idk if you've seen The Good Place but there's a bit from there about how the world is so complicated now and that makes moral action so much harder that feels relevant here

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Sep 21, 2021

i think when people say that they have this sort of maximally clean and pure conception of ethics that just isn't feasible. a conception of ethics according to which ethical action is impossible is useless (which is part of the point The Good Place was trying to make i think)

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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like yeah some worker might be being exploited and that sucks. does that mean you're ethically complicit if you participate in paying them? are they really better off if you *don't* do that? is it up to you to decide *for them* whether they get to make money by being exploited?

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