But if "truth" is only a moral/personal and not an ethical/society-wide value, then it is indeed boring to question the use and validity of empirical truth.
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Is it not more important societally to have lawmakers with strongly internalized moral codes than homeless people with strongly internalized moral codes? (funnily enough, I expect that the US government would be better if we replaced our lawmakers with the homeless)
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yes indeed it is, hence my prior statement about the need for individual morality as a pre-requisite for ethical society. but homeless people impact the lives of others too, through different means. still don't want to have rapist cannibal homeless dudes running around.
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Maybe if they burst out into song from time to time.
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a nasty tendency in Protestant societies is to make identical one's material and social station with one's state of grace and moral goodness. i'm explicitly rejecting this right here as a good example of a harmful delusive belief in our society.
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