Eugenics and itās negative outcomes are a risk @transhumanism.bsky.socialhttps://www.liveaction.org/news/people-euthanized-autism-netherlands/
Fallibilism is important for many reasons. An extra one is that fallibilistic thinking means you are better to strive for archetypal virtue than to assume you know it all.
Popper says in history, there is no science, only interpretations. Is the meta-science of comparing interpretations therefore a means of defeating the culture wars and painting a nuanced and understanding picture of history?
Question to vegetarians and vegans: Ā Do you check how many animals die in your supply chain? Ā Consider eating Kanga. They are in plague, and being shot and piled up and burned. Ā Might as well eat them. No farming.
If BlueSky defines itself in terms of "pre-Elon Twitter" is that limiting?
If you give a man a fish, you are a saint. If you teach him how to fish and tell him to catch his own freaking fish and feed his family, you are a capitalist pig-dog.
A lot of harm has come from the fetishization of the Good Samaritan. GS might have saved one dude. But failed to call authorities, start a community intervention for bandits or even put up a ādonāt travel aloneā warning sign. Parable of the Talents does more for me. #UseYourGifts
#TrinityofEthics posits we should use all of Virtue Ethics, Deontology and Consequentialism in 'ensemble'. On Consequentialist logic, the consequentialist spruikers should listen up. https://medium.com/@jonathangunnell/a-trinity-of-ethics-virtue-deontological-and-consequentialist-6765efbf0087