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Schneeaffe's avatar

Ive read your model so far and think you have a lot of good ideas. Id be interested in your thoughts on the following:

1. The "classic" ethical conundrum of mechworld is not about how we can value things, but what people can be held responsible for. I think there is fertile ground for hack-analysis here too - the idea that unchosen traits shouldnt matter, and relatedly equality of opportunity, seem to derive from this in some way.

2. Utilitarianism has always been a total theory, no matter how cool-headed and panic-free. It doesnt believe in any action "doing no harm", and accordingly should leave the private realm empty - even absent panics encroaching.

3. I have my doubts about the detethering. If we look over the whole of the panic era, there seems to be a clear direction to the changes in public morality, and much of it was predicted by earlier utopians. This suggests that there is some systematic to the process, even if advocates in the moment are left without rational means

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Clark Coleman's avatar

Have you defined the Six Core Beliefs somewhere?

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