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Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Isn't This the Basis for a Secular Morality Like Utilitarianism?

i don't think that you can draw a simple utilitarian argument from that. Either the existence of suffering or the observation that it's the reduction of unnecessary suffering might be a good thing. So i'm also leary of those. See, it's not reasonable, in some sense, to reduce a complex set of ideas to a single proposition.

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