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AlisLandale posted...

Society needs to be able to communicate morals. What it sees as right and what it sees as wrong.

From these agreed upon beliefs we build social contracts and culture.

You can argue theres no concrete, intrinsic metric by which to measure good or evil. But theres no concrete metric for descriptors like clever, stupid, brave, admirable, valuable, annoying, embarrassing, etc.

life is uncertain and largely meaningless. Human society constructed meaning. Theres value in deconstruction, but trying at it too hard isnt going to produce anything useful

That puts it far more eloquently and succinctly than I could have.

Good and evil are shorthand for a whole host of socially constructed meanings and unless youre being deliberately obtuse, you know thats tacitly understood.

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