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Ethics and objectivity

To accept the subjective truth of what the universe is, we must reject objectivity as nothing more than lazy thinking. We need to recognize that Objectivity is a comfortable and easy shortcut we all use to try to stop arguing about what is true and meaningful. And it unfortunately works very effectivly.

Even when we know just how much culture shapes the zeitgeist of moral imperatives that form well-trodden path of acceptable steps forward, that path is predictably misleading to any lover of progress. Objective ethics are the inventions of lazy thinkers everywhere.


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