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If you care about your children, then hugely benefitting them is both selfish (changes the world in a way you personally prefer) and rational. Whatever the OP m
by xenophanes 13y ago
If you care about your children, then hugely benefitting them is both selfish (changes the world in a way you personally prefer) and rational. Whatever the OP meant I think it's important.
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago"Selfish" is usually used to mean "not valuing things outside oneself". This whole thread is why I find the "rationalist" community obnoxious. We have to turn it into a circlejerk about white American salariat wishes for immortality? Come on, let's spend 10 whole minutes acknowledging that other people with their own worldviews really do exist. EDIT: DERP, part of a sentence was applied to the wrong thread.