Friday musing before I hop off this app...
Is it inconsistent to be more compassionate to "horrible" people than to animals?
Animals that suffer seem to be a big monkey wrench in trying to hold together some worldviews.
A winding observation in the past week got me there...
Is it inconsistent to be more compassionate to "horrible" people than to animals?
Animals that suffer seem to be a big monkey wrench in trying to hold together some worldviews.
A winding observation in the past week got me there...
I was at an exhibit in a museum in Danville that dealt with the opening of the US western frontier including the fate of native Americans.
It gets you thinking of course about how human cultures could evolve so differently.
But one of the ideas that I fixated on was...
It gets you thinking of course about how human cultures could evolve so differently.
But one of the ideas that I fixated on was...
The view to some tribes that owning land made no more sense than owning the air or water.
And the only thought that occurred (actually recurred, because I have it a lot) is how made up everything is. I mean rules and laws (not say physics...I mean we can build bridges and cars)
And the only thought that occurred (actually recurred, because I have it a lot) is how made up everything is. I mean rules and laws (not say physics...I mean we can build bridges and cars)
And I can imagine an argument from some about capitalism, and lifting people from suffering, and progress and so forth.
But of course any reasoning like that still optimizes for something and that something is obviously human-centric.
But to take that view...
But of course any reasoning like that still optimizes for something and that something is obviously human-centric.
But to take that view...
Is to say these other cultures way of life is wrong. They optimized for something that was,in a modern lens, very non-compassionate.
And then, what do we make of animals and industrial meat in our modern calculus.
So here we are, cultural evolution, which is value-free just
And then, what do we make of animals and industrial meat in our modern calculus.
So here we are, cultural evolution, which is value-free just
does it's weeding.
At any one point it could be a local maxima (we might all just blow humanity up with nuclear weapons and our modern cultural will be revealed to be a point where the sign changed)
But the idea that all the arguments are made up and entrants into the idea
At any one point it could be a local maxima (we might all just blow humanity up with nuclear weapons and our modern cultural will be revealed to be a point where the sign changed)
But the idea that all the arguments are made up and entrants into the idea
tournament just remains.
And so, talking your own book or secretly supporting views that accrue to your own book are all that's left. Super relativistic and nihilistic.
But contending with the fate of trampled cultures and animals feels hard to assimilate otherwise.
And so, talking your own book or secretly supporting views that accrue to your own book are all that's left. Super relativistic and nihilistic.
But contending with the fate of trampled cultures and animals feels hard to assimilate otherwise.
Anyway, simply thinking about the property rights thing which is so native to our thinking just can get you into some weird water if you're like me and have no coherent worldview. It's just all made up, and it's hard for me to take metaphysical crusades seriously...
Everyone talks their own book, everyone is a hypocrite.
But embracing that is ugly and dangerous. So we need to pretend.
And realize that when people look closely at the hypocrisy they will always find it
But it's moot. but we also have to pretend it's not.
Infinite loop
But embracing that is ugly and dangerous. So we need to pretend.
And realize that when people look closely at the hypocrisy they will always find it
But it's moot. but we also have to pretend it's not.
Infinite loop
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