One of the healthiest things you can do is simply decide to dislike certain people, individually, without guilt or rationalization. Simple dislike is benign. Tribal hatred is the cancerous result of trying theorize away failures of dumb universal love doctrines.
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Replying to @vgr
Personal dislike is build on the illusion of the self / other dichotomy. Universal love is a natural consequence if its dissolution. But accepting one’s negative emotions is totally healthy, absolutely. We are all flawed people doing the best we can, including oneself.
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Replying to @ankushnarula @vgr
Malevolence exists. It’s also a possible brain state. Brain states correspond with mental states. But people don’t have ultimate moral responsibility for their brain states, and, therefore, neither for their mental states.
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Replying to @ankushnarula @vgr
Non-dualism, but probably mostly what you’d recognize as hard determinism, yes. My best theory about the world is that I’m an organic machine obeying physical laws, which appear to encompass everything I identify as myself.
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I independently co-discovered Matt’s worldview. It is the best worldview.
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