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The obsession over objectivity is a confusion of two things. There's rationality, the desire to be less biased. Then there's truth which is going to be necessarily biased toward whatever aspect of the world we're trying to understand. In both cases objectivity is irrelevant.

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Focusing on edge-cases of "trans-regret" is missing the point. If you actually care about these cases, then the interesting issue are the underlying vulnerabilities that lead to regrettable decisions. But probably you shouldn't care.

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We absolutely love some drugs. Others terrify us. The difference is familiarity more than any other single thing and the result is confusion. A much more principled framework for thinking about drugs is thinking of them as tools.

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Greek philosophers argued whether social morality was a creation of the weak to control the strong, but of course this is simply another form of strength.

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