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
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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 😬
tfw your conception of a quest is not at all that of a search for something already adequately characterized, as miners search for gold or geologists for oil
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Replying to @JakeOrthwein and @Meaningness
I really love this paragraph, I think about it a lot and it makes the concept of a quest into something different from a “project” in a way I really appreciate
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lol i was about to respond 'virtue ethics solves this'
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a wizard told me to cast 'i love truth above all else' to reveal confusion about goodness as sus af
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