Just to check, surely you’re not saying an extrapolated version of Archimedes and a thousand people who agreed with him wouldn’t have turned out OK?
It seems to me that we have some quite strong evidence against rotten bastards theory in that intelligent and well-informed people IRL seem to converge away from bastardly beliefs. Still, rotten bastards theory seems worth thinking about for negative-utilitarian reasons.
Just to check, surely you’re not saying an extrapolated version of Archimedes and a thousand people who agreed with him wouldn’t have turned out OK?
It seems to me that we have some quite strong evidence against rotten bastards theory in that intelligent and well-informed people IRL seem to converge away from bastardly beliefs. Still, rotten bastards theory seems worth thinking about for negative-utilitarian reasons.