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Re:Granfalloon technique by crispinb on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:01AM (#22886228)
That's fair enough, but I think the conflation of self-interest with rationality is so ubiquitous (and like most official ideologies, dangerously mistaken) that it's worth challenging when it arises. Or at least to the extent permitted by one's energies and everyone's good humour.

(I don't btw agree that values are entirely arbitrary, but that's a discussion for another day).

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Re:Granfalloon technique by GCSAQCMIYI on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:23AM (#22890333)
I'm curious why you see it as "dangerously mistaken". What is the danger in making that mistake?
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Re:Granfalloon technique by crispinb on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:50PM (#22893927)
It's a longer discussion than I have time for now, but in short: it creates ethically worse people (unnaturally selfish) without them being any more 'rational' (just as subject to biases as ever). And it creates worse societies, eg. the US. The two feed back and forward to each other, making for a downward spiral very hard to arrest.
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