He's basically making a consequentialist argument in favor of diversity rather than utility. Whatever increases diversity overall is good, and whatever reduces it overall is bad. So it makes sense for Western civilization to be a net negative. I can see how killing would generally reduce diversity, since when you're dead you can't really do anything, except maybe when it conflicts with cultural practices involving killing.
You'd have to make the case that that's also true of child molestation, but I don't see how that follows, and he doesn't make the case in this piece at least. And him personally thinking it's fine would be consistent with him using it as an example of moral relativity, and with his defense of preagricultural societies in general, plenty of whom didn't have a pedophilia taboo.
If he thinks there are any other moral goods, he doesn't state what he thinks they are and his points about morality being relative would undermine them (just like they undermine his claim that diversity is a good tbh).
Well, on the other hand trauma introduces all kinds of behaviors that nontrauamatized people generally don't do. Think of something like dissociative identity disorder: that could definitely qualify as diversity. The pscyhological experience of trauma is itself a diversity of experience. The condition of being traumatized is a kind of neurodiversity. And a wide range of differing sexual norms is definitely cultural diversity.
Killing's final, prevents the victim from ever doing anything again, but inflicting harm on someone else isn't necessarily.
It's really not a good framework for people who are anti-molesting children.
A range of possibilities entails differences. He doesn't argue for self-determination for its own sake or anything like that, just diversity. So, whether an individual has a say over it or not, a greater range of possibilities, in culture and psychology like in biology and ecology, would be good. All the things I mentioned would expand that range of possibilites, in ways that we would consider bad (because they obviously are) but in ways that would be good if the foundational good were diversity.
America limits diversity in the way it consumes and homogenizes everything it comes into contact with, but that's not necessarily true of abusive behavior.
The same principle would apply to different kinds of diseases, as long as they're not lethal or not very lethal (ignoring everything else he has to say about disease, which is complete fucking pseudoscience). Herpes is diversity. Chronic back pain is diversity. Mental illness is diversity (and this is one I know for sure a lot of anprims like to make, and one that really pisses me off personally, even if they insist that the conceptualization of mental illness as mental illness is incorrect).
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He's basically making a consequentialist argument in favor of diversity rather than utility. Whatever increases diversity overall is good, and whatever reduces it overall is bad. So it makes sense for Western civilization to be a net negative. I can see how killing would generally reduce diversity, since when you're dead you can't really do anything, except maybe when it conflicts with cultural practices involving killing.
You'd have to make the case that that's also true of child molestation, but I don't see how that follows, and he doesn't make the case in this piece at least. And him personally thinking it's fine would be consistent with him using it as an example of moral relativity, and with his defense of preagricultural societies in general, plenty of whom didn't have a pedophilia taboo.
If he thinks there are any other moral goods, he doesn't state what he thinks they are and his points about morality being relative would undermine them (just like they undermine his claim that diversity is a good tbh).
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Well, on the other hand trauma introduces all kinds of behaviors that nontrauamatized people generally don't do. Think of something like dissociative identity disorder: that could definitely qualify as diversity. The pscyhological experience of trauma is itself a diversity of experience. The condition of being traumatized is a kind of neurodiversity. And a wide range of differing sexual norms is definitely cultural diversity.
Killing's final, prevents the victim from ever doing anything again, but inflicting harm on someone else isn't necessarily.
It's really not a good framework for people who are anti-molesting children.
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A range of possibilities entails differences. He doesn't argue for self-determination for its own sake or anything like that, just diversity. So, whether an individual has a say over it or not, a greater range of possibilities, in culture and psychology like in biology and ecology, would be good. All the things I mentioned would expand that range of possibilites, in ways that we would consider bad (because they obviously are) but in ways that would be good if the foundational good were diversity.
America limits diversity in the way it consumes and homogenizes everything it comes into contact with, but that's not necessarily true of abusive behavior.
The same principle would apply to different kinds of diseases, as long as they're not lethal or not very lethal (ignoring everything else he has to say about disease, which is complete fucking pseudoscience). Herpes is diversity. Chronic back pain is diversity. Mental illness is diversity (and this is one I know for sure a lot of anprims like to make, and one that really pisses me off personally, even if they insist that the conceptualization of mental illness as mental illness is incorrect).
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