how is living commendably so hard for so many. just love being good and abjure bad things. this is not complicated
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having talked to loads of people the core things is “big scared, big pain”
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lots of this for me and, related to it, some legitimate actual confusions about the nature of the good
To be cheeky yet sincere, this could just as easily be a quote from supervillain or authoritarian-tyrant. “Strength and power is good, weakness is bad, this is not complicated”
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what if your fancy problems like the meaning crisis are actually just deep rifts in the cultural grammar of morality
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for example: is the good actually just what the most hyperverbal effective altruist can convince me it is? or is the good actually what my loudest feelings can convince me it is? or... *gasp* is it way more complicated than that 😬
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