“Actually it doesn’t count as wanting there to be corpses if what I want is dead Nazis”-ass Why Are You Convinced This Defense Is Coherent And Necessary logic when you could just be pro-harm to Nazis but that’d take thinking about more than aesthetics I guess? istg
That's what Contra sort of gets into with this video Our basic psychological drives -- which is what our intellectual moral beliefs are ultimately based on -- are evolved, not designed
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The "strategy" we're programmed to take with enemies/threats is "rational" in the grand scheme of things, because it evolved out of what helped us survive against said threats But it wasn't set up by some moral authority presuming centralized power
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Our morality didn't come from a situation where there even was an overarching "we" or "us", some kind of authority who decides what's ultimately best for everyone That's something that evolved out of our society much more recently, and is arguably still mostly only an ideal
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