• MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Here’s the context of that sentence that you are quoting: “You can’t get people to work together in a coordinated way without some ideal in their minds, they have to believe that their effort might not help themselves directly but might help make future civilization a better place. That takes faith of one kind or another.”

    I was talking about getting people to work together for a better world, not an individual choice"

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        9 months ago

        “the betterment of mankind” is an intangible idea that you are choosing to believe in. That’s faith.

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          9 months ago

          It’s very tangible. Quantifiable even. Higher literacy rates. Lower teen pregnancy. Higher incomes. Longer lifespans. Lower carbon emissions. And so on.