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Things can be quite far from "the absolute worst" and still be quite far from perfect, too.
by WJW 5y ago
Things can be quite far from "the absolute worst" and still be quite far from perfect, too.
- waynesonfire 5y agowe're not that far from absolute worst. the world is savage. Continuing my rant, it's one of the things I like about Jordan Peterson. His ideas face this fact head-on. He reminds listeners and readers of this and then presents his ideas given this truth. It seems to me that a philosophical idea that doesn't incorporate that as a basis is fundamentally flawed as it's a pretty important detail.
- WJW 5y agoWe're absolutely quite far from the absolute worst. The world could've been entirely uninhabitable for example, think "without an athmosphere at all" kind of uninhabitable. That would've been a way worse outcome than what we have today. I see no reason to limit the range of "worst to best" outcomes to the ones usually imagined in political debates.