True, but that’s what I like to call “uncomfortable logic” in that if we distill many things down into fundamental terms, common ideas of morality and social practices etc. get… uncomfortable.
The gingerbread man is made of “gingerbread” but gingerbread isn’t a base element of its construction. The analog to carbon, asides… carbon… but if we keep the analogy- we might say “flour” is more like his carbon. So we’re his house made of something else primarily composed of flour (or carbon) but otherwise distinct from his own being in chemical structure and observable traits, that might work. So we’re his house made of sliced bread that might be akin to living in a house made of a whale carcass, but were his house made of a flour based mache that might be more akin to wood or building materials perhaps.
For example- the carbon content of a permanently comatose human and a healthy and active human are the same. Only their behavior and electrical signals have changed- so at that level being attractive or funny would be the same as bludgeoning someone into a permanent comma as you have caused an alteration to their behavior and the measurable activity in their brain.
Therapy is just indoctrination or brain washing we consider positive- you’re being gas lit into believing a narrative to produce a specific result.
There is no practical distinction between family and strangers in romance or sex as long as fertilization doesn’t occur. So why is casual sex between family considered taboo? Your spouse is family but not by blood, so why is there a stigma around step siblings and such in relationships when married people sleep with their family regularly?
There are some REALLY foul ones that the only real answer for isn’t logical- we can merely rely on abstract moralization or cultural…
.. conditioning to resolve them if we only view them at the most fundamental levels.
To be clear I am not advocating or saying I personally believe any of these things- I am saying that when we distill most issues down to the point where any context is removed and we are left with only a set of basic facts, things can get very uncomfortable and often plainly wrong. An example is thus:
If the carbon in our homes makes homes the same as our flesh, then the people who say a vaccine is poison because it contains mercury or some other chemical are also correct. Of course in context we know that of course your food and medicine will sometimes have the same chemicals as in auto paint or yoga mats. At some level of the periodic table most things can be linked. Your coffee maker probably contains elements found in nuclear reactors. Do not stand in a reactor and use it make coffee.
The gingerbread man is made of “gingerbread” but gingerbread isn’t a base element of its construction. The analog to carbon, asides… carbon… but if we keep the analogy- we might say “flour” is more like his carbon. So we’re his house made of something else primarily composed of flour (or carbon) but otherwise distinct from his own being in chemical structure and observable traits, that might work. So we’re his house made of sliced bread that might be akin to living in a house made of a whale carcass, but were his house made of a flour based mache that might be more akin to wood or building materials perhaps.
Therapy is just indoctrination or brain washing we consider positive- you’re being gas lit into believing a narrative to produce a specific result.
There is no practical distinction between family and strangers in romance or sex as long as fertilization doesn’t occur. So why is casual sex between family considered taboo? Your spouse is family but not by blood, so why is there a stigma around step siblings and such in relationships when married people sleep with their family regularly?
There are some REALLY foul ones that the only real answer for isn’t logical- we can merely rely on abstract moralization or cultural…
To be clear I am not advocating or saying I personally believe any of these things- I am saying that when we distill most issues down to the point where any context is removed and we are left with only a set of basic facts, things can get very uncomfortable and often plainly wrong. An example is thus:
If the carbon in our homes makes homes the same as our flesh, then the people who say a vaccine is poison because it contains mercury or some other chemical are also correct. Of course in context we know that of course your food and medicine will sometimes have the same chemicals as in auto paint or yoga mats. At some level of the periodic table most things can be linked. Your coffee maker probably contains elements found in nuclear reactors. Do not stand in a reactor and use it make coffee.