Morality is self-defeating because it is the do-gooders who commit the greatest atrocities. Those with the highest morality give no consideration to morality whatsoever.
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Beavers and bees are tremendously beneficial to the ecosystem. Do they try to be?
No. They are as selfish as can be.
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Do they (animals, insects) conceive of morality in any sense?
I think the implication in the op’s tweet is human, not animal. Otherwise there’s no discussion.
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I didn’t mean it quite that literally. More just that when you—human or animal—do things out of sincere, honest selfishness, you fulfill your ‘Dharma’, supporting the whole order of the universe on your own part.
You have zero idea what actually is ‘good’ in the greater scheme of things—your perception of reality falls miserably short of being able to know it. One action seemingly good now might trigger destruction on a scale yet incomprehensible (one meaning of karma).
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Hence, the best way to live is just to go on doing what you naturally, selfishly feel like doing—because that drive itself is instilled into you by the Great Tao, the Dharma, the force upholding the universe at all times.
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I might do something out of “selflessness” instead of selfishness. For me that would exist outside of morality as well as being separate & distinct from selfishness.
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