dimreepr

Indeed, but we are talking about 'evil'...😇

Sorry, but the first bit is still true, across the millenia...

It's not about evidence, it's about belief; if I choose to believe, I feel better about what seems unfair. But if it's evidence you want, just google something like 'winning the lottery didn't bring me happiness', I'm not saying it's ubiquitous; I'm sure there's many a rich person that defies the trend, but as a builder who's worked for Lord's and Ladies and through all the levels of supposed wealth; I've yet to meet someone who thinks they're rich and are happy to breack bread with me. I look like a tramp... 😉

Indeed, the question is one of balance; how many people can the government afford to piss off, before they all get uppity?

It's always obvious who the rich are, it's also obvious that their action's will not bring them peace of mind and will end in a cul-de-sac for the many that worship them. When I was a builder, I'd always prefer to work at a poor person's home, I knew I'd get a cuppa and a biscuit; never at a rich person's home, they'd make themselves a cuppa and come and check on my progress; have a guess, who I worked harder for? The rich often learn their mistaken perspective of wealth, on a lonely death bed. Surrounded by people, eagerly anticipating the value of their last breath.

The fundamental difference, I believe, is that we're analogue and digital has limitations when trying to mimic reality, it can only appoximate; like trying to compute a random... That basically means, you can't have a meaningful conversation with it... IOW my point... 🙄

Yes, be human... Indeed, not every human is a genius, but how many machines are? I'm not saying machine's can't be better, I just wonder what they can be better at...

You're missing the point, e.g. how does a machine express love or pain or hunger etc.? People are trying to make machines with a humans ability to philosophise, they have yet to achieve this; my point remains, you're introducing an unnecessary complication in an unending search for an understanding of reality.

Nothing about the soul is mysterious, it's basically Newtonian, but with a quantum twist...🤞

Of course not, you just think they are; or does the queen that gets to think for everyone???

Indeed, but culture starts from the family, in a fractal sense there is no scale; a successful society always impose a scale that includes them.

Not strong enough to convince a PHD panel, so not a doctor; join the club... 🙄

They have been, that's the point; from Socrates to Trump... 🙏 You have to have a compelling reason to think otherwise... If you can't expand our understanding of the knowledge we have, then you can't be a doctor of anything... 😉

I lived in a prefab concrete home, it wasn't very friendly to my ecology.

Hubris often blinds us...

This reminds me of the moment I clicked on a link, that asked if anyone knows anything about a 'pictured flower' that's unknown to science, bc I was a professional gardener (self taught) for a couple of year's; What did I imagine I could contribute? That there is what I call a 'tulip'... 😉

Congratulations your moral compass is well aligned, for whatever reason (usually luck); unfortunately your, lucky, bias mean's you can't imagine the motives of someone with a less than lucky up-bringing. The only problem with hell is that no-one believes in it, other than the poor soul's trying to avoid it...

Who's???

It depends on the scale at which one view's the issue, given enough time and all becomes clear... 😉

Indeed, but it's designed to persuade bad people to not do bad thing's, their belief is essential; so athiest's are giving them a green light to be an arsehole... Irony???

It's more nuanced than that, for instance 'one often finds ones destiny on the path one chooses to avoid it'; or Maslows pyramid. It's kinda biblical, the sermon on the mount sums it up, it's up to you to decide what kind of 'topia one lives in. Which circles back to my take on a BNW, which I see as parable, a lesson about the difference between society and the self.

It's more nuanced than that, our need's and wants have been conflated and then used as a weapon of mass distraction. Late stage capitalism... implies a revolution is imminent, I'm content with that and a full belly, for now...

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. Ludwig Wittgenstein

@Phi for All is right, you lack the pyramid of knowledge needed to understand the subject at hand, essentially all you do is quote. and Wittginstien took a dim view of that.

My point...? Hmm, isn't it strange that we're so willing/determined to accept that 'utopia' is, no place and impossible, yet we seem so eager to accept that 'dystopia' is everywhere and imminent.