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Nevermark 2 days ago

You seem to be completely at sea here, for all your knowledge.

Caring about oneself and others' welfare is a direct result of being creatures that must make choices to survive. The compounding positive sums of increasing cooperative behavior are not arbitrary. They pay for themselves, many many times over.

Thus, practical virtue appears naturally, and persists, and grows, regardless of what you want to call it, or alternatives that anyone comes up with.

If you are going to argue about/against that practical impact, at least acknowledge practical virtue has a very special status.

Or you are arguing from (real or posed) ignorance.

The burden us on you, if you want to claim this practical progression should be superseded.

Without that, an appeal to impractical principles over practical good, is very much in the vein of "telling me what deity you believe in".

What "good" is "good" that doesn't reciprocally maximize "good" going forward.

So far your comments lack any grounding beyond itself. Perverse "purity". That relegates virtue to an hermetic aesthetic or OCD tick.