it parses!
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naw, all can Become Good, but 'i had no opportunity to Become Good' isn't a get out of NotGood card.
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besides the good is inherently knowable to all thinking beings, in bicameral people it appears as a voice of great authority speaking directly to them
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so surely all men born in idk say Periclean Athens were irredeemably wicked start to finish on account of their reprehensible views of women thats pretty interesting youd've have thought that a reasonable fraction wouldve figured out the Correct 21C view but somehow no??
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Are there any societies that you do believe were irredeemably wicked - perhaps those that regularly performed human sacrifice, had institutionalized slavery, etc? It's hard to see how this argument, if accepted, doesn't generalize to every past society.
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If there is some sort of continuum between that evil society and a good society (like there kind of is between ancient Athens and the modern West) then maybe the wickedness was worth it. Aztecs were evil but were also a dead end, so their evil was not worth it.
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Arguably the Inca wouldn't have been, but the Aztecs, yeah.
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I feel more comfortable calling societies, separate from their collective human constituents, evil
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that makes sense, I think - is the general idea that personal morality is a function of the society one is born in, and thus individuals cannot be said to be good or evil, just societies?
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