From Philosophical Research
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- Nothing should be done unless everybody considers it wonderful / "they had such good reasons for doing what they did that the ends justify the means" -> I am so sick of this phrase and its use in analyzing both fiction and reality. there are so many wrong assumptions in it that are difficult to dig up at first, but whenever anyone uses this concept it always totally distorts their view of how reality really works. you get so many crazy propositions out of this like that it's absolutely not allowed to investigate how reality works without obeying metaphysics, etc.
- Peter Singer should never donate unless tribal populations consider it wonderful / If Peter Singer believes that acting is better than not acting, it results in brutally assimilating tribal populations; telling people that nothing should be done unless everyone considers it wonderful will somehow cause Peter Singer never to do anything [1] -> no no no no no. I mean, those historical events are real, but this is terrible reasoning to apply to explain them. the moment you start reasoning like this you empower millions of Tories to say that a single person making them use preferred pronouns or teach the history of racism is tyranny. you don't want to open that can of worms. before constructing a system of ethics please just admit that people don't actually have control over other people's minds and decisions.
- Do not what unto others is not wonderful / Do not what unto others surprises / Do not what others would not experience / Do not unto others what they would not decide / Do not what others would not 'unto' themselves / Do not what others would not normally-see-happen-as-a-spontaneous-event-unto-them / Do not what others would not "unto" -> in the end this thing is a lot like a twisted version of the golden rule.
this... is also the same thing as the Shenlong effect. it just has a slightly different context it appears in and explanation of the process. this one is strictly viewing the world through ethics and the assumption it exists or makes sense, while the Shenlong effect as it's defined in its original context is viewing the world through material analysis of behavior and interactions at various scales, basically a slightly warped version of dialectical materialism. this proposition is like, an origin story for why particular individuals assume the Shenlong effect to exist, although people could also hypothetically invent it through different assumptions
Ideology codes
- ES
- HM / critical theory
- A / anarchism and transition to restore Native American tribes (motif)
