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godembodied

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    Comment #11818490

    How can it be universally bad? Gravity is universal, but morals are relative to individual and groups of individuals(societies). You grew up in the environment where action X is la…

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    Comment #11818473

    All of the things you mentioned are relative to a culture. Since you were born in the West, you think of all these things as bad. The indoctrination is so strong that you feel that…

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    Comment #11818294

    So what if they execute people for what they think are crimes? Who are you to judge what people should or should not do? What you label as evil someone will label as good. There is…

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    Comment #11817533

    For God's sake, please price your products and services appropriately and make money from the start. Then, you won't have to beg vulture capitalists for scraps. If you raise money,…

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    Comment #11804751

    What is disturbing about this is that Hume or any other philosopher is popular because people today agree with him. There were other philosophers who lived during Hume's lifetime, …

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    Comment #11804198

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    Comment #11804108

    If this is the case, then we have an intersting problem. Epigenetics change, DNA - due to mutations can differ from cell to cell, people get injected with completely different DNA …

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    Comment #11803865

    Great and a very thoughtful answer. You gave a good explanation about morality and its relevance. Plus at the end you've admitted that this and probably many other of your attitude…

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    Comment #11803331

    From my system of morality... Why do you follow that system of morality and not another one? For example, people adopt and use Gauss's law, because they think it's objectively true…

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    Comment #11803139

    helping to level the playing field by giving extra help to those who don't have that step-up Why does someone who is privileged have the obligation to help those that are not?

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    Comment #11799404

    It's like you worked out that the intuitive emotional response that most people use for their moral compass isn't exactly well thought out... If I understood this correctly, you wa…

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    Comment #11798449

    Who will create the lab? Won't he be the most powerful ? Every oligarch(if there are many of them, like there were many kings in medieval Europe) would need to have a lab. It will …

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    Comment #11798305

    Imagine you alone can control robots and grow animals(including humans) in a lab. You could use robots for specific tasks and use humans as sexual slaves or worker slaves. This cou…

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    Comment #11798125

    Yeah one of the dangers of AI and robots taking jobs is that they don't have any customers left as in B2C business model. They will have to do a B2B model ... Great point! B2B will…