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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, hello, everybody, hope you're doing well. |
0:03.9 | So this is a wee bit of a last show. |
0:05.9 | I did a show on conscience, but don't worry, |
0:07.8 | the second time will be better. |
0:08.9 | I don't know what happened at the first one. |
0:10.1 | It went in the flurry of the 15 different devices I used to record things so this is |
0:14.7 | a conscience the retake. Okay so I've often made the case that people get angry at UPP because UPP is a manifestation of what occurs in our minds which we call the conscience. |
0:30.0 | So the conscience is the universal part of universally preferable behavior. |
0:37.0 | And the opposite of conscience is hypocrisy, which in particular if it's invisible to the hypocrite is even more powerful |
0:45.0 | we'll get to that in a bit. |
0:47.0 | So as the old saying went when I was a kid, |
0:50.0 | what's good for the goose is good for the gander. |
0:54.2 | That if you say that Bob mustn't steal, |
1:01.1 | then how can you say that Doug must steal or it's alright if Doug does steal. |
1:07.0 | If you say these are morals and that morals are restrictions or |
1:13.7 | adifications on human behavior, which is why there's no sort of thought |
1:18.3 | crime outside of dystopian novels of China and, everywhere these days I've been goulagged |
1:26.5 | digitally goulag for thought crimes. So there is a basic set of stilligisms that run all operations of morality, right? |
1:36.0 | Number one is morality is specific to human actions, and morality is common to all humans at all times, in all locations, and under all circumstances. |
1:49.0 | So if you grabbed another kid's toy in the kindergarten or in the early grade school, the teacher |
1:56.7 | did not say, oh wait till tomorrow, tomorrow you can do it no problem, tomorrow it's totally fine to do, |
2:01.5 | but today you can't, right? Or they didn't say wait till it's totally fine to do but today you can't right or they didn't say wait till it's raining or |
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