Not necessarily relevant. I read wedrifid’s comment as being less about fooming per se and more about what I might describe as the virtue of munchkinism: taking advantages available to you even when they conflict with implicit understandings about your role in life. We could debate to what extent that’s a core or necessary rational virtue, but I don’t think it’s very debatable that it is a rational virtue.
Not necessarily relevant. I read wedrifid’s comment as being less about fooming per se and more about what I might describe as the virtue of munchkinism: taking advantages available to you even when they conflict with implicit understandings about your role in life.
Exactly.
We could debate to what extent that’s a core or necessary rational virtue, but I don’t think it’s very debatable that it is a rational virtue.
It’s not core or necessary unless, say, the aliens with superior technology and the evil gods are trying to kill you.
Rationality and fooming are distinct concepts.
Not necessarily relevant. I read wedrifid’s comment as being less about fooming per se and more about what I might describe as the virtue of munchkinism: taking advantages available to you even when they conflict with implicit understandings about your role in life. We could debate to what extent that’s a core or necessary rational virtue, but I don’t think it’s very debatable that it is a rational virtue.
Exactly.
It’s not core or necessary unless, say, the aliens with superior technology and the evil gods are trying to kill you.