what other things are like that?
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@VesselOfSpirit insincerely believed but socially defended moral Schelling points? -
@sarahdoingthing things that we all know are false but that we casually assume are true when not thinking about the specific issue -
@sarahdoingthing and not just technically false like "space is flat", but pretty substantially false -
@sarahdoingthing i.e. i don't mean just when we make approximations for convenience, but more like when we have two parallel beliefs -
@sarahdoingthing one belief for when we're talking about the thing, another belief for when we're talking about other things -
@sarahdoingthing i believe that human life begins at birth when i'm not thinking about when human life begins. i'm not just saying it -
@VesselOfSpirit I bet there are a ton but the only one that keeps coming to mind is David Benatar's asymmetry (not sure if you're familiar) - 13 more replies
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@VesselOfSpirit we have this weird cultural meme that human life begins -
@DeityOfReligion i don't get it -
@VesselOfSpirit implication is that human life does not begin at all. Doesn't seem likely, but useful if you want to see man as automatons -
@VesselOfSpirit Alternative implication is reincarnation; no individual human life "begins"—or ends, just a cycle of death and rebirth
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@VesselOfSpirit But we use sharp boundaries for any legal distinction. So, legal and illegal are usually similar bounds. -
@VesselOfSpirit Obvious examples include assault vs. self-defense, accidental versus criminally liable, etc.
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