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#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define What Is Good & Bad?

Modern Wisdom

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How to Have a Conversation About Practical Ethics Without Breaking It Into Meta Ethics

People do have certain base level intuitions that are roughly the same, right? And you can talk about practical ethics without breaking it into meta ethics. If you don't have the same measurable theory, it's like you could be playing chess with someone who's using the rules rugby and it's just not going to work. There's a term called semantic overload, which I learned from Ben Shapiro. That is what's being used an awful lot at the moment, semantic overload.

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