UM, NO LIVES MATTER – OR VERY CLOSE TO IT.
Actually, purely empirically, very, very, very, few lives matter at all.
We just act as if we do so that everyone else will also. We all understand none of us matter. So we treat one another as if we matter out of self-defense.
We don’t actually matter. We just survive and cooperate if we treat one another like we do.
Incentives. That’s why communism doesn’t work and consumer capitalism does work. It’s also why everything else works.
incentives.
I might argue that civilizations matter. But within them, at any given point, less than one percent of people ‘matter’.
And the world would be a lot better place if there were a lot fewer people who didn’t matter. Because it matters that they don’t matter so to speak.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-09 08:01:00 UTC