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subzero112001 t1_ix7bme9 wrote

Reply to comment by SoTastyWhales in The famous Butterfly Dream of Taoist Philosophy and how it recommends a radical openness to judging right from wrong by CaptainOfTheKeys

That line of thought is still useless. Because it basically means that you should pander your actions to the masses. And we all know how stupid a mass of people can be. So living to please them is a very flawed and biased view.

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SoTastyWhales t1_ix7ecpc wrote

No, you should do what you think is right, whatever that is. But when you can’t go by your own judgment then you need to rely on another’s. In my opinion still useless since if you’re not making decisions on your own judgment you have to necessarily be using another’s. Only pointing out your criticisms miss the actual ideas of Tao.

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subzero112001 t1_ix7h01y wrote

Uh, in summary I was saying that Good and evil being subjective is fine. But resorting to basing your decisions off of what other people want is useless.

So we basically agreed.

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SoTastyWhales t1_ix7h9dk wrote

Yea we agree on that, but I disagree with how you characterise Tao that’s all. Yes overly subjective is bad, but no the Tao is not overly subjective.

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