Morality isn’t real. It’s literally just how we feel about things and that’s basically how we imagine other people will react to situations.
Morality is implied agreement with other people to signal that “you can trust me because I follow the same rules as you.”
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RT @empathy2000
does moral weight of killing scale linearly with the amount of consciousness of the thing being killed, or is it some other function?
e.g. If a florb's co…
https://twitter.com/empathy2000/status/1402664444958855175
Even the most hardcore vegan will not actually fear being in the room with a meat eater because we don’t actually give undomesticated animals moral weight.
Conversely, guy who only eats steak would be creeped out to be near guy who ate his pwn pet dog. That’s like eating a baby, which is harming a human, which means I can’t trust he won’t harm me.
There literally is nothing more to morality than this.
