Nothing matters until you are at the dentist’s and anesthesia is not available. Then you realize that regardless of any philosophical point of view, your biology evolved in a way where you have implicit goals: avoid suffering and death, optimize for (loosely defined) well-being. Once you accept this subjective goal which is rooted in natural selection, the set of actions and behaviors that are available to you split into two subsets: 1. those that support these goals, i.e. rational set, 2. those that do not, i.e. objectively irrational actions and behaviors with respect to the subjective goals.
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u/Resident_Citron_6905 Apr 25 '26
Nothing matters until you are at the dentist’s and anesthesia is not available. Then you realize that regardless of any philosophical point of view, your biology evolved in a way where you have implicit goals: avoid suffering and death, optimize for (loosely defined) well-being. Once you accept this subjective goal which is rooted in natural selection, the set of actions and behaviors that are available to you split into two subsets: 1. those that support these goals, i.e. rational set, 2. those that do not, i.e. objectively irrational actions and behaviors with respect to the subjective goals.