• BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    There’s the rub: “good” and “bad” are simply byproducts of knowledge, abstracts that don’t pertain to concrete real-world objects. As such, the medium becomes the message: knowledge must be good because it allows us the medium to consider goodness. Of course we think knowledge is good, it’s all we’ve ever known.

    It’s like making a moral claim about existence: of course we think existence is good, it’s all we’ve experienced, all we can know.

    Also: bandwagon fallacy.