I STILL won't push the big red button.
I'm not trying to prove efilism wrong, just sharing my personal intuition, I welcome the downvotes and criticisms.
Why won't I push the button? Because I don't "feel" right doing it, that's it, the TLDR version.
The long version?
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This universe has no moral guide, no cosmic code of conduct and no objective law for behavior.
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Everything is deterministic, including life. Nothing can escape it.
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Deterministic causality enabled life, evolution, natural selection and eventually enough brain cells to conceptualize subjective mind dependent things, such as purpose, morality and "feelings".
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BUT, life is "naturally" diverse, varied and mutates a lot, meaning it is unlikely for us to develop the same feelings for the same facts, even individuals have strong disagreements about the same things, let alone the entire "species."
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So who is "right" and who is "wrong" about anything that isn't cold hard facts like physics? Nobody. The concept of right/wrong does not even make sense when applied to subjective intuitions (instinct + feelings). If you feel that something is right for you, then it's right for you, there is no other way to go about it.
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All non factual guides for behaviors (ought) are developed from our intuitions, including Efilism. There are no "factual" guides for behaviors, IS cannot become Ought, a logical barrier of reality.
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This means, all of morality, ethics, purpose, and whatever behavioral "ideal" humans could come up with, are all subjective to mind dependent human intuitions. Since intuitions are diverse, varied, nuanced and context dependent, this means we will never have a universal "ideal" that everyone can agree with.
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Thus.......without TRUE right and TRUE wrong, people can intuitively argue for whatever ideal they want, but nobody will emerge as the ultimate victor. Unless you consider majority consensus as a standard for the "best" ideal to follow.
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No amount of logic, reason and rationality can change this fact about reality, that we are just deterministic platforms for diverging and intuitively subjective ideals. Yes people naturally want to avoid harm, but what facts dictate we must go extinct to avoid harm? Is extinction a deeply hidden desire of all humans? How do you prove this?
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MY personal intuition, is to not push the red button, something deep inside deters me. It doesn't mean you have to follow my intuition, you can push the red button if that's your intuition.
FIN.
No insults please, let's discuss with civility. hehe
Posted Nov 29, 2024, 5:08 AM UTC