Four Ideas You Already Agree With - EA Forum
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Here are four ideas that you probably already agree with. Three are about your values, and one is an observation about the world. Individually, they each might seem a bit trite or self-evident. But t…
contact_antitype 1mo 1 0 0 "People are equal" is clearly the weak link... given that you're trying to derive stuff like "I should value strangers as much as my children" from it. It's very wrong to say the inverse of "people are equal", given what you're trying to derive from it, is "racism is good." Reply
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