godembodied

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by godembodied 10y ago
How can it be universally bad? Gravity is universal, but morals are relative to individual and groups of individuals(societies). You grew up in the environment where action X is labeled as bad and then you take that so seriously and think i
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by godembodied 10y ago
All of the things you mentioned are relative to a culture. Since you were born in the West, you think of all these things as bad. The indoctrination is so strong that you feel that your opinion is an objective fact. But, the same seriousnes
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by godembodied 10y ago
So what if they execute people for what they think are crimes? Who are you to judge what people should or should not do? What you label as evil someone will label as good. There is no absolute evil/good, as you're trying to portra
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by godembodied 10y ago
For God's sake, please price your products and services appropriately and make money from the start. Then, you won't have to beg vulture capitalists for scraps. If you raise money, those vultures become your bosses. Why are you ev
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by godembodied 10y ago
What is disturbing about this is that Hume or any other philosopher is popular because people today agree with him. There were other philosophers who lived during Hume's lifetime, but they are not popular. Why? Because people today don
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by godembodied 10y ago
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by godembodied 10y ago
If this is the case, then we have an intersting problem. Epigenetics change, DNA - due to mutations can differ from cell to cell, people get injected with completely different DNA in the case of organ transplant. New neural pathways are cre
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by godembodied 10y ago
Great and a very thoughtful answer. You gave a good explanation about morality and its relevance. Plus at the end you've admitted that this and probably many other of your attitudes & preferences are heavily influenced not by criti
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by godembodied 10y ago
From my system of morality... Why do you follow that system of morality and not another one? For example, people adopt and use Gauss's law, because they think it's objectively true. Is that the case with your moral system?
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by godembodied 10y ago
helping to level the playing field by giving extra help to those who don't have that step-up Why does someone who is privileged have the obligation to help those that are not?
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by godembodied 10y ago
Who will create the lab? Won't he be the most powerful ? Every oligarch(if there are many of them, like there were many kings in medieval Europe) would need to have a lab. It will be specialized. Just like factories today are s
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by godembodied 10y ago
Imagine you alone can control robots and grow animals(including humans) in a lab. You could use robots for specific tasks and use humans as sexual slaves or worker slaves. This could happen if there are 'designer babies', where yo
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by godembodied 10y ago
Yeah one of the dangers of AI and robots taking jobs is that they don't have any customers left as in B2C business model. They will have to do a B2B model ... Great point! B2B will be few oligarchs trading among themselves.