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The value itself might be wrong but there's no denying that a human cannot conceptualize an infinite number of other humans as "people". When you see a news st
by causi 5y ago
The value itself might be wrong but there's no denying that a human cannot conceptualize an infinite number of other humans as "people". When you see a news story about two hundred miners dying in an industrial accident you don't feel two hundred times as sad as when you read about a single-vehicle fatality in your hometown.
- Ntrails 5y agoVery few (if any) humans ever really treat all human life as equal emotionally, because that would be either debilitating or sociopathic depending on extreme. We are emotional beings, so it's incredibly hard to exclude emotion from our decisions. Perfectly rational action is in many ways more dangerous from a moral/ethical standpoint. As a society we are currently pretending it is a terrible crime to differentiate, but it strikes me as so at odds with reality as to be a source of unsolvable friction