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so yes, please let us live our lives together here in one another's society as epicurus would have it, not just as interlocutors but as friends.
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schama big on this
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you can even get analytic about it. we've shaped out models of other people over thousands of years: it's highly a efficient form of data compression for moral ideals
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WWJD packs so much info into it bc we're really good at generating hypothetical responses from someone we know well. also why v-ethics has a reputation of being practical: you can extract a lot of info out of "mirror the ideal virtuous person"
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Somewhat related: I once read something from someone noting that one of the underappreciated reasons USA and Mexico ended up so differently is that 'murica got Washington as the founding father and Mexico got stuck with Santa Anna
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Although Santa Anna really hit his stride a generation after the actual independence, so maybe someone like Jackson would be a better comparison
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