1/I'm open to compromise on it. But that reminds me of another leg of this rant: what makes values 'core'? It doesn't seem to be that they are the values which are tested most and remain stable -- rather, it often seems that the core values are tested least, or just never tested.
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What if some "delusive beliefs" are good?
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define good? see, this rhetorical strategy is easy to do.
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One possible reading: what if holding delusive beliefs allows you to better satisfy your core values as expressed in action?
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is satisfaction of your core values what we care about? I mentioned context-limited utility as a value because it focuses on solving real problems instead of just attaining a kind of spiritual satisfaction (whatever that might mean).
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Yes, I was defining "good" as "whatever satisfies one's core values." However, what if we only solve real problems for the spiritual satisfaction (or escape from boredom, I guess), and it's simply *extra* spiritually satisfying if the problems are real?
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when I'm hungry my problem is I need to eat nourishing food. if I don't eat nourishing food I will become sick and eventually die. it doesn't matter how spiritually satisfying I find eating to be. case in point: anorexics are spiritually repulsed by eating but they still have to.
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This presumes anorexics value living over not eating. Not all have!
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well there's the rub. if it's a method of suicide it seems to be one of the most exotic and excruciating ones you could come up with. there is such a thing as a recovered anorexic. I don't understand it on a deep level though.
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