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You should learn about a few of these things, you're pretty off on most of it:

- 'Modern' morality was only invented in the late 1700s. Not millennia ago. Millennia ago was Aristole's Nicomachean Ethics which was pretty much based around virtues. Mill's utilitarianism and Kant's Categorical Imperative were written in the late 1700s

- Quibbling about the meaning of words is basically a waste of your life. Calling words you don't like woo woo is a waste of everyone else's time. pg wrote a good essay on why: https://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html



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