[Conjecturing morality is about relationships]
Rand was right that morality isn’t just about other people, but wrong why.
Why:
Every person has different idea strands(/sets) inside their own mind. These strands have relationships between each other, in similar ways people do.
Rand was right that morality isn’t just about other people, but wrong why.
Why:
Every person has different idea strands(/sets) inside their own mind. These strands have relationships between each other, in similar ways people do.
Relationships between people are (in some ways?) not fundamentally different from relationships between idea sets inside one mind.
This is because minds are not consistent.
They don’t have single beliefs on a subject—they have lots of ideas that address subj in different ways.
This is because minds are not consistent.
They don’t have single beliefs on a subject—they have lots of ideas that address subj in different ways.
When a mind has different contradicting ideas, that is the state of having problems.
Which is a (the) good thing. Absence of problems is stasis – no progress possible.
(There are bad problems: internally coercive ones.)
Which is a (the) good thing. Absence of problems is stasis – no progress possible.
(There are bad problems: internally coercive ones.)
The idea of a person with integrity, with no internal contradictions, is communist totalitarianism inside one mind.
It says: there’s only one purpose in a mind; everything is/should be devoted to that purpose; if there are contradictory purposes, that’s bad & to be eradicated.
It says: there’s only one purpose in a mind; everything is/should be devoted to that purpose; if there are contradictory purposes, that’s bad & to be eradicated.
The benefit you get from interacting with people comes entirely from the *differences* between you.
Same is true inside one mind. If you were entirely consistent, you couldn’t think. (You’d have nothing to think about.)
Same is true inside one mind. If you were entirely consistent, you couldn’t think. (You’d have nothing to think about.)
There are unconflicted areas of the mind, and those are the ones we don’t think about.
