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I am a sentient creature that feels pain and pleasure
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Others appear to be sentient creatures that feel pain and pleasure
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Pain is bad, so I should avoid inflicting it
You don't need empathy as an axiom to derive it rationally
agamemnonymous
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I disagree. Reason can take you there by virtue of justice or equality.
No? Once reason restricts passion, the hierarchy collapses. An action that causes yourself mild pain, but pleasure of greater extent to others, is preferable to an action that causes many others pain even if it gives you pleasure personally. Reason demands you restrain yourself from the passions that would harm others. That's not unilateral fealty. Axioms must be assumed, but the most powerful systems assume as few as possible, and leave most of the legwork to reason.
how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight?
DISCLAIMER - I am not planning on fighting a pelican.
there's a brown pelican that hangs out...
Poetry.
Actually, wait...
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I am not planning
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They look so incredibly practical. It's so function-driven, I love it.
Own the libs. That's the whole thing.
Bentham developed hedonistic calculus. The foundation is a multivariate ethical vector space. He rationalized hedonism to the extreme. The passions are explicitly tempered for a calculated greater good.
What I read is his friends identified him as economically leftist, but took issue with identity politics
Huh, just noticed that.
I'd wager the "Delay, deny, depose" part had less to do with her arrest than the "You people are next" part.
Yeah, the one good part of it
That probably has a lot to do with it. Doubling the workforce let's employers be way pickier.