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Symmetry, Rights, the Health of Society
Why are equality before the law, genuine justice – adequate, real laws, and a dispersed, neutralized form of power so essential if we truly wish to live well? Because a society’s health depends on symmetry. An asymmetrically arranged post-industrial society—authoritarian rule, oligarchy, the sway of billionaires and dictators—creates an over-weighting and a structural imbalance that…
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We’re all gonna die someday
In the end, death makes us all the same. At this point in time, under the given conventions of our development, death is a good thing. I realize we are still limited as a species, as minds, and in spite of having the capacity for higher intelligence, we are still primitive, and most of us…
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