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A crudely drawn ms-paint-style comic. The first panel depicts a person with an ancap (anarcho capitalist) mask. The mask is black and yellow, the colors are divided diagonally. The person is saying “statist bootlickers fuck off!” to a boot. In the next panel, they are staring at the boot draw an amazon logo on it with a marker. The last panel shows the person deepthroathing the boot, saying “At least it’s not the gubermint [government”.
I don’t think this is real or helpful towards understanding the world. The measure of morality is the shape of your life after you practice it. Your impact on others. Morals are about things that matter. You’ve come quite near to postulating that they don’t matter. I cannot support this view.
I’m more postulating that to actually be moral, you’d need to still be moral when it’s not about being liked or having a better chance of survival. Do good because you want to do good. A system of morality based on “if you don’t act nice, you’ll have a more difficult life” is more of a set of rules being imposed on a person than morality on that person’s part.
Your point is cogent enough and well explained. It seems diconnected tho.
Try building your own rules. The pieces you seem to think don’t matter are actually where one starts in that project. The gritty business of morality is its foundation.
I learned my own code of behavior by making a lot of mistakes. I did things I’m not proud of. The things I believe in today had to be slapped into my skull.