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cperciva • today at 7:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Wow that showed up quickly.

Readers might also consider my 2020 post "On the use of a life" to be an interesting companion piece: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-...


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smitty1e • today at 10:21 PM

All this talk of "truth" and "duty" implies some larger context in which such abstractions would be evaluated.

One continues to be fascinated by the very human dichotomy in which (the global) "we" want to allude to, or leverage, these concepts, while stridently avoiding evaluating them in any way that might lead to behavioral conclusions.

For a specific example, consider: International Law, in all its emphemerality.