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@2Improove @GreenhouseVHS To understand this, you need to accept, or at least understand, the idea of homo hypocritus:

https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1023550713811501057

@2Improove @GreenhouseVHS We all have a lot of stupid and overly idealistic beliefs, especially when it comes to fairness, harm, and how society should be organized. The only thing that saves us from the colossal idiocy of these beliefs is that we are very bad at living up to them.

@2Improove @GreenhouseVHS We are very lucky to be hypocritical, because if we really acted in a way that was consistent with the moral image we try to project, the world would grind to a halt

@2Improove @GreenhouseVHS So when you actually succeed in "really doing something" to be more consistent with the morals that you signal in public, you almost always end up making the world a much worse place

@2Improove @GreenhouseVHS More thoughts on this here:

https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1118918241433206789