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I think a comparison of the relative impact of Nobel Prize winners and Olympic gold medal winners would dispute your claim regarding moral worth. I can’t think
by williamtrask 5y ago
I think a comparison of the relative impact of Nobel Prize winners and Olympic gold medal winners would dispute your claim regarding moral worth. I can’t think of an athletic equivalent to the invention of vaccines, solar power, democracy, the internet, or even the concept of morality itself.
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoBy that metric, most people are worthless.
- Alekhine 5y agoIn the grand scheme, those things are more important. But coming up with an idea or solving a puzzle does not make a person better than another. Getting an Olympic medal could take equivalent effort to making a major scientific breakthrough. Its just that the kind of effort being made is different.