moral conflict boils down to choosing between your sense of rightness as an Individual vs the moral decision of the Group. groups act as a kind of moral insurance where wrongness is dispersed amongst everyone.
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it also implies that the capacity for group violence and pressure for group homogenization is proportional to how "Right" the group needs to be.
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e.g. one reason trans activists tend to feel more 'punishing' than other groups may be the cost of being wrong. https://old.reddit.com/r/detrans/top/?sort=top&t=all …pic.twitter.com/AXn50M70xs
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homogenization is a critical part of moral group insurance as well since in a perfect world w/ nothing Other to compare against, there is no way to notice that you are wrong and no way to measure degree of wrongness.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1359515502582763520?s=20 …
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the end result is that choosing group morality over individual morality can be completely totalizing. you have to swallow the entire body of moral judgement. there is no freedom to choose, rethink, rework, criticize, re-interpret, etc...
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veganism for e.g. is often tied to other moral superiorities. cats, as obligate carnivores, have to prove themselves more b/c they can't do the vegan thing. just like a black guy born in china needs to be extra extra extra chinese to be accepted by the chinese community.
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what group DO get right is that morality is created BY the group. "my values are JUST as good as YOURS" is true to as long as the morality is purely "spiritual". once they start affecting the real world the knife of analysis can start to judge moralities themself as good or bad
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e.g. "men r better than women at working" works as long as the men aren't sent to war and the women need to start working. once there is a need, the previous moral judgements, which are the load bearing columns for Culture, are stripped of their immortality and can be killed.
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everyone thinks they are an individual. this is b/c no one thinks they are part of a mob. they are always part of a Righteous Mission or a Group of Friendly Friends. true individuality may even be impossible as "I" am always "part" of my body, mind, environment, etc...
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once the concentric circles that build up the layer cake of "Me" dissolve, there is a sense that there is only One individual that is the "Universe" or "Reality" or "God".
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moral judgements are an art. they are the art of dissolving and enforcing boundaries for the sake of Something. yin & yang. it is lazy to enforce at all costs or to dissolve at all costs since you simplify the world by splitting it in half. you deal w/ N rather than N^2
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related thoughts on "Identity Traps"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1356832063723196418 …
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