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If that’s your line of thought, then why stop at burials? All human culture has little basis in the natural world. Unless you’re a Nihilist and Darwinist, I as
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
If that’s your line of thought, then why stop at burials? All human culture has little basis in the natural world.
Unless you’re a Nihilist and Darwinist, I assume you think some values are more important than others?
- tomc1985 5y agoThere are some such values, but I recognize their fragility in the face of actual human behavior. And indeed, I think a lot of aspects of culture are dumb and that society would be better off without. It would be better if the world returned to the basics instead of endlessly wrapping itself around an axle of contrivances.
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- msla 5y ago> Darwinist I think you have some odd definitions.
- rimiform 5y agoWell, burials only matter if others care about it. Other values, such as "do not harm others", etc., matter even if others don't care about them, because they concern actual suffering of living people. If you follow Parfit, you choose that the latter kind is the only kind to care about, and so caring about burials for the sake of the one buried would be nonsensical to you.