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2/ If "good" is defined as people generally on board with civilizing process (ie don't want to cause needless pain), what % of us are good?
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3/ In answering this q we tend to replace moral absolutes of good/evil with shades of grey, to acknowledge complexity of trying to be good
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Why define civilization this way? It seems unnecessarily Hobbesian. Other options might be productive capacity, epistemic law, etc.
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