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A comment on American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth. Parent comment
Our ideas of right and wrong are largely arbitrary so we aren't actually very good people compared to our ancestors.
This does not follow. The definition of "good people" hinges on a moral system, arbitrary as it may be.
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Our ideas of right and wrong are largely arbitrary so we aren't actually very good people compared to our ancestors.
This does not follow. The definition of "good people" hinges on a moral system, arbitrary as it may be.