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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Well let's consider that logical validity, while useful for objective facts and conditions, might not be a good a benchmark for things that humans are emotionally attached to? Is it an unreasonable thing to point out that most humans simply do not (and will not) use the formal system of logic, even if trained in it, as the basis on which they emotionally relate to their experience? What I am trying to say is just that, while it might be logically valid it is not emotionally valid, and that really does matter. Would you enforce a world that is reasonable and logical, but makes the people who live in it uncomfortable and miserable?

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    Well, I simply cannot agree that anything that would notably increase human misery could be considered optimal in the first place. So I suppose on first facts we simply disagree.

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    Eh, I can not say that I agree that people's attachment to privacy is purely a matter of the current status quo. I think a human desire for privacy, at least in some contexts, is innate. Sure, I'll grant that it's extremity in the modern era is due to the oppressive and abusive state, but I think people have an certain in-born aversion to being overly judged and observed.

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