Shallow vs Deep Persuasion
Part of the persuasion sequence
***Bullshit alert: This may well be bullshit. Expect unempirical distinctions, ungrounded assumptions and fuzziness all
Agreeing with the Greeks: character as the basis of a good life
the more i write, the more i find my writing resembling the Greeks, whom have always despised.
The Greeks wrote
Freedom and Morality and Sacrifice
Few martyrs have families. To sacrifice your own live is brave. To sacrifice that of your children send maniacal.
To
In defense of tribes 2: evolution of systems
separate cultures or units of an organism are likely to be more diverse than a single unit.
diversity leads to
In defense of tribes: Group formation as a necessary response to cultural/moral differences
Some moral rules are mutually exclusive. nudists and nakidity-haters cannot coexist.
Some differences are not contradictory buy are hard to
Distance based empathy as mechanism enabling pluralism.
Human empathy drops off over space.
Singer and many people think this is bad. If we cared about injustices which
Judge a person by how they behave towards their enemies
Everyone is good to their own tribe, to their friends and ideological/political/economic/cultural faction.
Very few people are
Democracy and rape
Different people want different things. sometime these differences if opinion are based on misunderstanding it factual practical disagreement and can
Causal entanglement as death.
There are two types of influence: internal(you) and external(the world). World influence [Damages free will/is personhood destroying]
Kant's deontology and game theory.
(from ssc) You're a prisoner of war. Your side is good. Your captors, the enemy, are evil. Your