- ArfJason
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i dunno if id extrapolate from saying "people are not important", which in a cosmic scale is just factual, to saying that it means someone does not care whether someone else suffers or does not want to minimize suffering. you can recognize the fact that morality did not come prepackaged into the world as a segue into talking about morality's arbitariness, how different societies have different moral standards, how it has changed along with specific societies, how it has changed on a macro scale, etc, and how that means we get to define it under whatever lens works for our particular sociohistoric moment. this is no way a defense of the original poster or that quote, since i find them a jackass most of the time, just that i dont think both lines of thought are mutually exclusive
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- ArfJason
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i guess that's because culture is a powerful force. It is a wholy existing "system" from the moment you are born. it tailors what you speak, what you think, what you wear, and even what you see (iirc the inuits can see more shades of white due to having language that defines more shades with concrete words, arising from their need to better differentiate them in their environment). As such, of course you, a 21st century (now im assuming) northamerican male will have certain values, rooted in liberal ideals, just like how japanese have their own, and how victorian english people had their own, as did the renacentists, the zulu, etc etc. as an arbitrary concept that is firebranded into our being from day 0 i dont think its that bad to recognize that maybe theres limits to how far you can push your beliefs, as long as you just keep trying to remember other people go through the same, and try to change for the better. its also worth noting that this isnt an appeal to supremacy of any one kind, but rather that cultures should acknowledge each other while giving space to evolve and mutate, intermingle, etc. Pretending theres a one size fits all to socioeconomic problems for every place is one of the big engines of the neoliberal capitalist machine, and i dont think that's too far fetched to say of culture or morality either
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- ArfJason
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You're welcome.
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