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Re:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by ko27 on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:17PM (#25162537)
So you are saying that you need some sort of personal gain (ticket to an utopian afterlife for example) to be a nice person?
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Re:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by dpoochieni on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:39PM (#25164042)
That is such a cliched, average atheist argument.

Btw, even taking a very atheistic perspective, only focused on how humanity evolved (which is a selfish process in spite of your future protestations of how you have trascended it) we can see we evolved to be nice only out of self-preservation.

One would think that is the ultimate personal gain but I'll grant you that reminding yourself you are a good person must be a psychological gain of its own.

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