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I wholeheartedly agree, and as funny as this sounds, I just started writing a manifesto about this yesterday lmao.

I think the main issue is the way morality is framed in neoliberalism, many religions etc.—as something prescriptive. We follow laws not because of some internal moral principles, because we conform to authority and fear punishment. This isn't rational but deeply instinctual, and it leads to immoral action. Similarly, I think tribalism is a consequence of instinctual action and probably one of the main causes of evil in the world. Racism, nationalism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc. can all be explained in this framework. We need to educate people to recognize instinct and transcend it. A political system, however perfect, cannot be forced on people who aren't ready for it.

There is no such thing as objective morality. Being moral is a matter of will and character—consciously choosing what kind of person you want to be. I want to be the kind of person that brings pleasure into the world, and so I am a utilitarian.

Edit: And I'm not saying that I am fulfilling that adequately at all. Any coherent moral stance usually has implications which are "undesirable". If I were truly utilitarian, I should probably be donating money to the global south, and so should anyone else who claims to be moral.

Omg that thing looks gorgeous, it's a shame the company is owned by bezos

It's under your profile > personalization > memory, but I think it's off by default

Just wondering, why wouldn't you want to run Android? AOSP is fully open source, google free, and runs on linux anyways, these other OSs are just bound to be buggier...

Nowadays every country is involved in capitalism, whether they like it or not. Also, non-capitalism doesn't imply authoritarianism, take for example democratic socialism.

Classic capitalist brutality, whoever dares to speak out is crushed.

Well, they don't actually sequence your genome, afaik its a SNPchip type of thing, so only some select polymorphisms, probably not much useful data, especially if the stolen data was already processed results.

Why is killing people wrong, but ok in war? Why do we still kill animals even though we know it's wrong? Why is killing wrong in the first place? I bet you can't find a single rational reason. That is because ethics isn't based on reason, but instead on emotion. Given that, I don't find it very surprising that it's often very hypocritical.