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That's like saying calories can't be counted with 100% certainty, so we should eat integers instead. > What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism,
by johnnyworker 3y ago
That's like saying calories can't be counted with 100% certainty, so we should eat integers instead.
> What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality — as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time.
-- Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"
- riku_iki 3y ago> That's like saying I disagree with "that's like that". I think your analogy is very far. Calories metrics are actually much better researched and measured compared to human decency.
- funcDropShadow 3y agoHuman decency has been investigate, discussed, analyzed, dramatised since millenia, however not by using numbers.
- riku_iki 3y ago> however not by using numbers. yes, which makes all previous results subjective and unreliable.
- anigbrowl 3y agoThere's some interesting evidence suggesting there are 4 basic personality types with very different outlooks on life. If you're in a hurry, skip straight to the caption for figure 3. Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451