ControlsFreak
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ControlsFreak
1d ago
I don't think there is a sufficient quantity of drugs in the entire supply chain to explain.
ControlsFreak
1d ago
It would turn off the purists. It's an indictment of our society that we haven't developed technology that allows the TV viewer to select whether they want a neon green simulpuck or not on their own TV. This is truly the most important technological challenge of our time.
ControlsFreak
1d ago
It's the Star Wars meme.
Now that the Supreme Court got rid of the tariffs, the prices are going to go down!
...the prices are going to go down, right?
Conservatives know this deep down, but they don't want to admit it because it conflicts with the First Principle.
No, it really doesn't. At best, you've just found that some people aren't good at applying the First Principle. That doesn't mean the First Principle is wrong.
EDIT: In fact, I'd say that it's likely that you're committing the New Atheist error in thinking that if morality is a thing, it must obviously be an obvious thing that any decent (seemingly-similarly-inclined) person can easily just intuit. And thus, when one sees some number of one's co-(anti-)religionists go off the deep end, one concludes that morality didn't real in the first place.
Instead, it's actually somewhat difficult to cultivate and propagate. It doesn't help that the wickedness of man is great on the earth.
Alex Tabarrok just made this point as well, and he has useful analogies to illustrate it. I'm not 100% it's entirely correct, but it's definitely plausible and a point that is surely to be bouncing around in my mind for a while.
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