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Doesn't it, though? The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans, not for the state of nature that comes into contact with it.
by MockObject 7y ago
Doesn't it, though? The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans, not for the state of nature that comes into contact with it.
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- vincent-toups 7y ago"The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans." How do you figure this? Why not "The point of human society is to make the world more aesthetically pleasing?" Or "The point of human society is to make life nicer for all conscious beings?" Or "The point of human society is to make life nicer for all great apes?" or "The point of life among higher animals (of which human beings are a cohort) is to make life nice for all higher animals?" Its hardly a settled point _what_ the point of human society is or even where "society" should have its limits defined.
- mikelyons 7y agoThe Absolute Truth is that the point of Life is to become conscious enough to discover that the point of life is to become infinitely loving and utterly selfless. But imagine how conscious you have to be to get there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjZB9CoFfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjZB9CoFfs
- vincent-toups 7y agoWhile I'm sympathetic with the idea this seems like a lot of woo to me.
- mikelyons 7y agoSee if you can be radically open minded about it and notice the implicit metaphysics of your anti-woo default position
- vincent-toups 7y agoThere isn't one damn thing that is implicit about my metaphysics.
- mikelyons 7y agoWhen you say something is "woo" you're implying that reality is physical, which is your implied metaphysics. The Truth is that reality is _not_ physical, but you have to do a lot of metaphysics to get there, look into the video I linked.