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Old 06-19-2017, 02:06 PM   #778
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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There is no conflict between pragmatism, empiricism and rationality, on the one hand, and morality on the other. Those are just the means to get to what's just and moral.
They are when people start assessing whether to do what is good for them but bad for others like a simple business risk analysis.

Selfishness is almost always rational.

By the way, I agree with your take on the superfluous tie-in of Freud. But if you can bear one more such reference, consider Nietzsche on the issue of whether man could survive without religion (then the source of most "morality"). He believed if men ever went to 100% rationality, society would collapse under extreme individualism and selfishness.
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