How can you disavow Dark Arts? This is the Dark Arts.
Influencing other humans is hugely beneficial to almost any goals a human can have. I don’t think the techniques of effectively influencing people are Dark Arts. If you use them to make people believe falsehoods, or act against their own interests, that would be Dark. Otherwise, it’s just Arts.
Your claim that most people who studied these Arts would use them in Dark ways seems likely to me. But, if I expect to master these Arts myself, I will still support their research by default. I don’t know how to truly calculate the net utility here; I’m very interested in learning. What do you think?
Influencing other humans is hugely beneficial to almost any goals a human can have. I don’t think the techniques of effectively influencing people are Dark Arts. If you use them to make people believe falsehoods, or act against their own interests, that would be Dark. Otherwise, it’s just Arts.
Your claim that most people who studied these Arts would use them in Dark ways seems likely to me. But, if I expect to master these Arts myself, I will still support their research by default. I don’t know how to truly calculate the net utility here; I’m very interested in learning. What do you think?