I read through that several times trying to figure out where it went off the rails and I think it's herehttps://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/951276367949238272 …
I don't disagree with that premise. Burning your hand sucks on a pre-cultural level. It's self-evident insofar as we accept that we are self-evidently conscious animals with frail bodies and pain responses.
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BUT that is not a useful premise to derive ethics from because nobody would bother with an ethics that made such profound insights as "avoiding gratuitous bodily pain is good"
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