“I don’t think that it’s at all implausible that love is totally the creation of evolutionary pressures and not real. I actually think this is probably a widely held view on the forum—if you want to posit otherwise, you’re gonna have to start with a much more primordial belief in epistemology rather than appealing to some much ‘higher-level’ intuition that people have. I also don’t know what it means to ‘evaluate it’s plausibility’ here aside from evaluating how intuitive it is, which I don’t think is a reliable method to attain truth.”
This one reply suplexes 99% of what Matthew writes about meta-ethics.
“I don’t think that it’s at all implausible that love is totally the creation of evolutionary pressures and not real. I actually think this is probably a widely held view on the forum—if you want to posit otherwise, you’re gonna have to start with a much more primordial belief in epistemology rather than appealing to some much ‘higher-level’ intuition that people have. I also don’t know what it means to ‘evaluate it’s plausibility’ here aside from evaluating how intuitive it is, which I don’t think is a reliable method to attain truth.”
This one reply suplexes 99% of what Matthew writes about meta-ethics.