One fun thing about the stories is that they are nuanced and express positions as beliefs of the characters and because there is such a variety the authors can’t personally be backing everything. And for the same reason its hard to argue what is the correct takeaway. Making everything super complicated keeps things interesting and is mentally stimulating but doesn’t provide the most clarity. I am pretty sure that “people should regard Evil as a supreme virtue” is not a correct takeaway but there is something to the direction of “don’t be Stupid Good”.
Althought the explicit learnings of cognition are very condenced the context of them being practised immediatly before or after is a kind of thing I suspect to be pretty central to the things and harder to make shorter.
It did occur to me that I would totally read through “virtues and their layers” and Tolkien style specification of Baseline.
One fun thing about the stories is that they are nuanced and express positions as beliefs of the characters and because there is such a variety the authors can’t personally be backing everything. And for the same reason its hard to argue what is the correct takeaway. Making everything super complicated keeps things interesting and is mentally stimulating but doesn’t provide the most clarity. I am pretty sure that “people should regard Evil as a supreme virtue” is not a correct takeaway but there is something to the direction of “don’t be Stupid Good”.
Althought the explicit learnings of cognition are very condenced the context of them being practised immediatly before or after is a kind of thing I suspect to be pretty central to the things and harder to make shorter.
It did occur to me that I would totally read through “virtues and their layers” and Tolkien style specification of Baseline.