I guess the first thing is that this is about as bad as Bad gets recalling that Judecca in Cocytus is reserved for traitors to their benefactors and thinking this is maybe a correct ordering of Sins but we can dispense with that this is a triviality treachery is unvirtuous next
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what's more interesting to me is, how can one be Good in such a world hurum I guess this is discussed at length in Job which suddenly strikes me as more salient than Ecclesiastes
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Both books do sort of come to the same conclusion though, if I recall correctly The wicked often prosper while the virtuous suffer, often at the expense of those good people What I find is a helpful lens is taking others as almost exogenous and restrict consideration to oneself
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What I keep falling back to is: do I want to go to sleep at night as a person who wouldn't help a stranger change their tire It's not really about some material expected value (although I think in spite of it all that's still positive) Just, you know Who do I want to Be
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Replying to @eigenrobot
If you’re married and you have kids and you have a job do you want to be The Person Who Didn’t Risk Ruining Several People's Lives Including Your Own or do you want to be The Person Who Changed A Stranger's Tire?
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @eigenrobot
Preface: Humans are very bad at assessing risk. Caveat: Humans are (usually) highly loss-averse. Observation: Most people are not vile scum who would ruin the life of someone who helped them and did them no wrong.
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @eigenrobot
Assertion: Seldom in modern history has there been such a general environment so conducive to empowering the few people who are the aforementioned type of vile scum.
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @eigenrobot
Hypothesis: It is less and less difficult to morally defend the notion that regardless of the Preface and despite the Caveat, the potential risk of stranger-helping is large enough that a person with a lot to lose should strongly consider not doing it.
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Corollary: If your cell phone works you can call the cops and tell them you saw a breakdown but couldn’t stop to help. Postscript: if it doesn’t you should still alert the authorities as soon as you can if you believe the person may require assistance.
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Prerebuttal: Ted Kennedy didn’t get to be President, but he lived and died rich and powerful. Summary: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
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someone else mentioned prudentia and there is absolutely a conversation to be had about that here too just a first pass at what was immediately salient to me at the gym ^^
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I probably shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter after midnight.
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No it's extremely good! I basically am incapable of careful analytic thought once I clock out for the day and I'm grateful for you filling in gaps and correcting
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