
Ep 169: Livestream & Happy New Year
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The Black and White Differences Between Different Ethical Systems
If you want to deny that solving problems is an objective good about the world, you're now a relativist. So in this case, there must be objectively objective differences between ethical systems. David Deutsch's fundamental heuristic is, do not destroy the means of error correction. This is the thing that allows for progress in all areas. And so if you coerce force, let alone kill a person,. This is wrong, because destroying the means oferror correction is wrong. But just simply coercing them and forcing them to do what you want is wrong morally wrong morally reprehensible.
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