Oh noticed something Before people banned things they found unaesthetic with the rationalization that they were _immoral_ Today they rationalize the same by arguing that its _unsafe_
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morality is negative externalities. safety is negative internalities. but over time your internalities have become our externalities.
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Kontextmaschine: you’re asking how history will judge us for not signing on to your crusade to Protect Women, like Prohibition, Mann Act, obscenity laws, armed suppression of Mormon polygamy, in loco parentis campus parietal rules, the Moral Majority, the drinking age of 21 years
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morality emerges because testing every individual act for safety is burdensome, ex post facto, and insufficiently appreciative of long-term consequences
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deontological morality can be argued for as a superior form of utilitarianism
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Living among Pierson's Puppeteers.
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Moral is safety for souls. Safety is well safety for bodies. Makes sense, now that new Puritanism is all about a clean body.
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One could imagine moralizing to always being an obsession with safety, specifically a guide to spiritual safety. Where moralizing results in the demonization of others as indistinguishable from their immorality, a thematic obsession with contamination would be predicted.
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Euthyphro and Job are both pretty upfront that there is no such thing as morality, beyond a a concern for one's physical safety.
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kinda backwards. obsession with safety is an atavistic, materialist, one-dimensional morality, not an advanced one. any sufficiently *degraded* morality reduces to ‘safety’ perhaps
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