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Your 'ethics' are the default position for humanity. The overwhelming majority of people have the notion that you should be a nice to other humans, but being ho
by onion2k 4y ago
Your 'ethics' are the default position for humanity. The overwhelming majority of people have the notion that you should be a nice to other humans, but being horrible to everything else regardless of whether there's any chance it knows you're being a dick to it is fine. It's a boring position to argue from and throughly unoriginal.
- dsign 4y agoIt have gotten us here. Let me be alive and I'll find many ways to be original. Don't ask me to be original by being dead.
- onion2k 4y agoThere are lots of things from human history that have "gotten us here." I don't think that's a good measure of whether or not we should keep doing them. I have no doubt it'd be easy to argue that feudalism, cholera, and the international slave trade all furthered human endeavor because we learned a lot from them and built economies around them, but that doesn't make them desirable now. We're capable of being better than our ancestors, and it's not unreasonable to suggest we actually have a moral duty to improve our species for the sake of our own progeny. That improvement can only be measured against the past.