As I've already said, a model isn't reality; it's just the most useful representation we can use to suit our rules and processes. A model of the English languag

As I've already said, a model isn't reality; it's just the most useful representation we can use to suit our rules and processes. A model of the English language is by definition flawed, because humans don't actually work that way. A model of species is by definition flawed, because life doesn't evolve so cleanly. A model of morality most definitely doesn't work beyond finding commonalities, finding common ground, and reaching consensus (soft of). And those models fail us. All the time. But we constantly lose sight of this, and so our rules trundle along as we blindly believe that our rules of how things should work will just magically do that. America, Germany, and China gained power because of the great waterways (Mississippi, Rhine, Yangtze) that give them a HUGE cost advantage in moving goods (more than 10x) compared to everyone else. It's how they became rich and powerful. And they benefit from leveraging that into even greater advantages through human ingenuity. Meanwhile, countries in shitty geography (prosperity-wise) don't have a hope in hell of gaining anything like that, simply because their people were born in the wrong place. Is that fair? Is it moral to force them to pay what little they have for just a taste? You may say yes, but they'll definitely say no, and steal what they can. Is that fair to the companies that spent money and time developing these things? Can you come up with a model for this that makes everything moral? The fact is, our Western "morality" is hugely weighted towards property. I own this. I decide who can use it. I control what you can do, not because you lack the capability, but because I have this power of law to prevent you. And of course some level of property is necessary to the functioning of society. But that's pragmatism. We're about finding systems that work, and then justifying them after the fact by any means necessary. If you want to see morality in action, just watch kids playing at recess. It's a chaotic mess that reaches an equilibrium somewhere. And although there will be commonalities to match how our evolved instinctual behaviors tend to work, it'll never be the same each time. We dress it all up in fancy language, but somehow the models that we base our morality upon always seem to lack any acknowledgment of the inherent advantages we privileged live under. And then we conveniently declare the "level" playing field to be the one that our privilege is founded upon. And it's not like we're doing it consciously, either. The human mind is a tricky thing, able to deceive itself in so many ways as it tries to reconcile itself as a good person.