Unfortunately suggesting an alternative reality in place of the actual reality does nothing to undermine it.
Human beings have built many societies, all of them plagued with rational fallacies, hidebound traditions, and dangerous ideologies. This is fact.
In option one we attribute the growth of these traits much like one would a diseased gene in a growing organism, where every individual human is just a cell in a massive system. No one cell is responsible for anything, they only tend to their own special roles, performing their own particular functions.
In option two, every single human being a completely rational agent, with total power over their own mind and body, and they have decided, collectively and consistently, that some people should be treated better than others, receive more resources, be given more opportunity, given the right not to be demonized and othered, for completely arbitrary reasons.
Which reality is true? Which one would you rather be true?
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Human beings have built many societies, all of them plagued with rational fallacies, hidebound traditions, and dangerous ideologies. This is fact.
In option one we attribute the growth of these traits much like one would a diseased gene in a growing organism, where every individual human is just a cell in a massive system. No one cell is responsible for anything, they only tend to their own special roles, performing their own particular functions.
In option two, every single human being a completely rational agent, with total power over their own mind and body, and they have decided, collectively and consistently, that some people should be treated better than others, receive more resources, be given more opportunity, given the right not to be demonized and othered, for completely arbitrary reasons.
Which reality is true? Which one would you rather be true?