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May 29 4 tweets 1 min read
The point of morality is not to assert the ways that you are Good compared to others.

The point of morality is to notice the ways that you are not good enough, by your own standards, so you can change to be better.
The only actuator of your morality is you and your own actions.

Your tagging other people's actions as bad or evil is largely epiphenomenal, compared to tagging your own.

If your morality doesn't make YOU more moral than you would otherwise be, it's not helping.
Morality is working when you hear of something bad that someone did, and your thought is "when do I do something analogous to that? Should I do something different instead?"

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Some takeaways:
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Am I wrong about that? Is this alternative theory plausible in a way that I'm not seeing?
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Today, I realized, with a start, that I/we might very well be in Berkeley when it all goes down.

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