Posted by auggierose 2 days ago
"chat i'm about to drop a conjecture"
I agree that human society is too focused on productivity but disagree that it's tied to ignorance of the Bible. The fall of man illustrated in Genesis is tied to feeding on the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Having the right set of religious concepts wont put you in harmony with God and thus won't make you more loving to your fellow man.
There are many modern examples leading to disastrous results.
> we’ve started to dehumanize unproductive people, a slippery slope if we ourselves become unproductive.
That is very evident in the sort of things the techbros come up with, but I agre it is a wider social problem.
The moral and spiritual depth of our society has only shallowed after centuries of doing this.
It hasn’t worked!
Because people have different religious beliefs or none at all. Biblical is not the natural starting point for everyone.
Many people ceed control of their path-finding to seeing-eye-dogs.
Do you think the people using a seeing-eye-dog do this voluntarily over using their own eyes?
The statement I quoted said “zero examples of intelligent species” doing something. It took me 2 seconds to think of a counterexample. At the very least it was poorly phrased, if not altogether wrong. Moreover, whether or not people are doing it voluntarily is orthogonal to the statement.
I agree with the gist of the article, but having such a *BOLD:* _False Statement_ does not do it any favors.