This is just too close to some of our recent discussions for me not to call attention to it. As usual, Weiner knocks it out of the park.
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SelfAwarePatterns 
This line of reasoning is one of my favorites. Looking at the social animal from the outside in. I mean to say that ethics are like a pillow for your perspective. If I were born and raised in a cannibalistic tribe, I would see the practice of eating another human as something I was intended to do. The real bottom line is LIFE is a deadly murderous thing. If I don’t kill and consume I perish.
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Too true. Even a vegetarian has to kill plants to survive.
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I appreciate the part about how our moral laws are “close to true.” The strict adherence to moral codes that are only “close to true” is where I think a lot of us go horribly wrong.
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Totally agree. We can never know how “close to true” any moral code is, if that’s even a meaningful question. It’s the people who never question whether they are right who are the most dangerous.
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Objective morality is too important to be left to anyone without at least a smidge of relativist in them.
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