Quote from Gguwad on August 2, 2023, 6:33 pm

Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on August 2, 2023, 5:57 pm

There are endless circumstances in life where one can achieve faster or bigger by being a taker / asshole / SOB / backstabbing others (or even killing others).

Otherwise, being effective / successful / a life winner and being "good" would be the same.

And if that were the case, we'd only have good leaders.

That's interesting, thought that it's about win-win being very hard to pull off, but it ultimately gives the biggest pay off. Just like when when achieving mastery in something, you reach a point where you can do things that would backfire strongly when done with less experience.

I still think that's true.

Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on August 2, 2023, 5:57 pm

Anyway, after my previous message, I don't think there's much to add from my side to make the case that good and evil aren't social constructs but foundational real-life dichotomies that people base many of their life decisions on.

So that's where the argument ends? Anticlimatic. But it is what it is.