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OK, that sounds kind of like good and bad are a bunch of arbitrary BS, and if one knows that then one would have less reason to pay attention to it, but that doesn't seem to be what you think.
Anyway, I'll imagine you'll concede, since it seems really obvious, that what people take to be good or bad will be drastically different once they internalize that subjective experience is an illusion, correct? I mean, the whole current edifice is built on top of that BS we're discarding, so it would be very surprising if it all arrived at the same place. Especially given that there is no "place" because it isn't, and apparently can't be, defined. So .. any guidance? Is your message, most of what we believe is wrong but all that stuff stays the same, don't worry? Why do you think anyone would come to that conclusion?
Or am I just tilting and windmills because good and bad are arbitrary BS after all?
Har har, very funny, but you're not talking to a much more straw-filled version of me, you're talking to the actual me. There is no ground to stand on when trying to define "good" without dualism of some sort, because there is no objective connection between the adjective "good" and any part of the physical world. Good is describing different things entirely depending on reference frame - if there exist 10x our number of aliens whose lives/utility functions/whatever thing you want to find valuable are irreconcilably opposed to ours (they only live if we die, they are only happy if we are sad, etc) then there is no classical definition we can even potentially share. There is no universal reference frame for goodness, and there cannot be one. The only way to reason about goodness is to take an axiom that gives goodness a definition. That is not my stance, that is the only way pure physicalism can ever be. Pick one, check your conversational/civilizational partners roughly agree, then proceed.
You misunderstand (and in the process create a bit of a word salad). I never asked for a universal conception of well/poorly, I'm fine settling for a human-race or cultural or even person-specific one. All of those that we're familiar with are founded on stuff you're tossing out. Which is fine, maybe good and bad should go to. Instead, you just seem to be assuming some version of "That stuff has to go, but this stuff can stay" but not addressing and perhaps not even realizing that. (At the same time as disparaging philosophy in general while praising consequentialism, when it's not easy to think of a purer product of philosophy than consequentialism.)
You're not being coherent, which is a bad trait in someone who seems to think they know more than other people.
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