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Originally Posted by jwb
@ Bat
It's unseemly yea but it is sorta complicated to me. Cause it's not always clear if the seemingly ****ed up action is in the country's best interest.
E.g. nuking Japan, for an extreme example
Yet it's abundantly clear that abusing state power to screw over political rivals or using state policy to enrich yourself or your cohorts is a clearly corrupt and self interested endeavor.
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I'd say that preserving short term benefit at the expense of developing human morality is everything that is wrong with human civilization as it usually exists. A species that acts according purely to self-interest might as well be molten rock being acted on by a convection current, seemingly changing but ultimately changing nothing.
If man can not notice its own moral evolution and take heart in that noticeable change then it can have no hope for further change.