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The lifetime economic worth of an individual in the West is around $150,000.
Broadly, Europe and North America.
According to psychological egoism, all people are ultimately motivated by their own self-interest. Genuine altruism is impossible. This video outlines the case for and against psychological egoism.0:00 - Egoism vs pluralism4:52 - Altruistic behaviour11:38 - Falsifiability18:50 - Desire ownership24:55 - The pursuit of pleasure32:09 - Parsimony36:33 - An evolutionary argument
Why does a clever man like you waste your time with this drivel? People do things because they have to to want to. If the thing you want to do benefits someone else more than yourself, it is called "altruistic". Life and language are a lot simpler than philosophers would like them to to be.
The ability to identify self system or allies from outsiders or enemies are necessary to sustain complex structures such as living organisms. It's even working down to cellular level of immune systems.
After 171 pages the answer is still a resounding no.
What was your conclusion based on?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 02/11/2023 07:39:02What was your conclusion based on?It is based on my observation that there is no universal moral standard. Do you observe a universal standard? If you do what is it?
You can start with the post I marked as best answer.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 02/11/2023 13:45:54You can start with the post I marked as best answer.Looked at the 'best' answer and saw no universal moral standard. So that was unhelpful.
A universal moral standard must be based on the achievement of universal terminal goal.
According to the universal moral standard, an action is morally good if it increases the probability of achieving the universal terminal goal. On the other hand, an action is morally bad of immoral if it reduces the probability of achieving the universal terminal goal. The probabilistic evaluation is necessary due to inherently incomplete information that we have regarding the universe. Deterministic moral evaluation requires infinitely intelligent agent, as depicted by hypothetical Laplace's demon.
But since there is not a universal terminal goal
However it seems that every planet we have discovered appears to be sterile.