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JoA's avatar

Simple post, but I can only agree! Brian Tomasik criticizes our "dyadic morality" and suggests that personifying Nature as an evil force might be a positive meme (see Bostrom's iconic "If mother nature were a real mother, she'd be in jail for child abuse" - though some of Bostrom's ideas, like Astronomical Waste, push towards horrible consequences for farmed and wild animals).

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Jessie Ewesmont's avatar

Many psychological egoists aren't actually that. I mean, they'll talk a big game about how everyone is selfish, but at the end of the day they think their husband really does love them and care for them for their own sake. Unfortunately, philosophical beliefs being associated with virtue signalling means you sometimes have to dig a bit deeper to find their true commitments (or be disappointed when it turns out they don't have true commitments and it's all virtue signalling). One of my intetests is teaching laypeople how to clearly express themselves without needing a philosophy degree, for this reason

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