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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics

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The Value of Being Able to Say What's Right or Wrong

The value of being able to say like, what's right or wrong? And that circumstance, I'm curious. Well, the value ofbeing able to do that is something like self preservation. It's similar to sort of the early justifications for government in return for some kind of security. The purpose of something like compassion and altruism are ultimately self-serving because the chances are you are going to get found out every now and again,. But this is purely descriptive. This is just sort of describing why it is that people feel empathetic. If evolution works at the level of the gene, it seems suspicious that our level of altruism and willingness for self-sacrifice seems to

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