Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. I still eat meat even though I genuinely view it as wrong. And I do so because society makes it easy to do so and most people don't view it as an evil act. So I think there's some element to social norms as to why people do bad things.
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True. Assuming that urge to conform is strong enough to inhibit our will power to do the good thing:)
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On the top of my mind killing someone once cannot fall into the experiment area, unless it is indeed a mistake.
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And if it falls into the experiment area then it is evil indeed.
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We live our lives on a loop. We work to patterns. Seems to just be how the brain works. An addict, 4 example, is not a terrible person, they're just running their established pattern. Their humanity is absolutely unflawed. Question becomes, how do we design kinder societies?
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Another question becomes, how do we coach people / why don't we coach people in breaking established patterns? Teaching them that this is how the mind works?
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Exceptional Emily.
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The causes of all these lead to stuckness. We can only act — to serve our goals of progressing genetic and memetic life/evolution — as best as we can with the resources we are aware of being available to us.
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