Are You Optimizing the Seychic?

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The idea of an individual standing up and doing on thing thati is so heretical as to be unimaginable. If we were o say, ants, or termites, or naked mole s, it is not a question of moralityi should i sacrifice myself for the greater whole? Of course i should. My genetic tells me at that is the absolutely correct thing. In fact, the computer has told me the entire time that it's the best thing for me. So i've been primed and conditioned so that i am not just willing, but deeply poric sacrificed myself. And again, where's the problem? That's the big question.

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