another service our antinatalist friends perform! normative rationalism proceeds by palming a card, reasoning to a point where an emotive judgment is elided because it's assumed to be universal; antinatalists show no such response is in fact universalhttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1150605408454815745 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
People who wring their hands about whether or not they can strictly reason their way to something being right or wrong tend to have the weakest moral judgment. You would think the parable of Solomon and the two mothers would have sunk in by now
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Replying to @ThePatanoiac @chaosprime
What do you mean, “weakest”? The only way I can interpret this sensibly is if you think there’s an objective morality that you access through intuitions and “rational thinking” obscured those intuitions. (Or maybe a personal morality accessed through intuitions?)
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Replying to @TWakalix @chaosprime
Morality is a tangled thing from many forces, and reason doesn't encompass it alone (though it is a component). Attempts to override and find some fully rational result, ignoring the cultural, internal, etc. tends to produce unrecognizable results like the antinatalism example.
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Replying to @ThePatanoiac @chaosprime
Curious. Chaos says that antinatalism results from different internal motivations, whereas you say that antinatalism results from denying internal motivations. Do you think that every human has an overriding internal motivation toward propagating their species?
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Replying to @TWakalix @chaosprime
The different internal motivations will always exist, but attempts to exalt reason over the others is an act of denial within that framework that leads to bizarre results. I don't think I'm on a different page. Motivations belonging to every human are virtually unthinkable to me
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yeah, we have a fuckton of predispositions, but there's a long road between a predisposition and an operating motivation
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