Are You Different Than Me, You Are Evil?

We have to figure out how can we have a system of real meaning and yet also have real pluralism so people can pursue a variety of meanings, right? Right. It's easy to glorify the hunter-gatherer lifestyle but you could be ostracized or cast aside socially for even the slightest deviation from that society. So there needs to be both a unifying source of meaning as well as individual sources of meaning. And that is your right, Jim, the challenge. How do we satisfy both the collective and the individual with whatever system we design? Yeah, we can't go back. We have to go through and forward.

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