ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT I DIDN”T WANT TO UNDERSTAND My work has led me to this

ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT I DIDN”T WANT TO UNDERSTAND

My work has led me to this conclusion:

1) Humans must acquire – and acquire all sorts of things.

2) To acquire among others we negotiate.

3) In negotiation we justify.

4) We trade signals to to obtain discounts in exchange for status.

5) Truth (correspondence) about the real world provides a negotiating advantage.

6) Truth in social matters would disallow discounts obtained in exchange for status (or other opportunity)

I will try to expand that a bit, but it isn’t any more complicated than that.

Some people are much better at justifying than others. (verbal acuity)

Universalism is a form of justification that makes use of cognitive biases: Caldnin’s “weapons of influence” are means by which we justify (steal) in by taking advantage of cognitive biases.

Our genes are selfish, They need to be. And selfish genes win.Truth can be an advantage or a handicap. Justification can be an advantage or a handicap.

If you grasp this then it sort of ruins the whole moral nature of christendom. We are not families. If we treat one another as kin then, some families will be destroyed by other families.

Cooperation on means is mutually beneficial. But, universalism is a deceptive attack on the excellent and true. It is parasitism.

If that doesn’t ruin your philosophical day, then not a lot will.