Just believing that what you're doing is right doesn't make it right?
Not everything is subjective, and not every debate is worthy of middle ground. Sometimes, and I would argue autonomous kill robots is one of those times, just sometimes it's not really worth negotiating on. What would be the middle ground here? Just a little autonomous killing as a treat?
I don't know about progressives specifically, but I don't think 'cannot empathize with their opponents at all' is what articles like this are doing. It's more that the more people like Alex Karp talk the more they prove that their morality is something which should be opposed by the general public. IMO the more Palantir talks the better.
So what? I don't really care if you are proud of your work if I think you work is objectively evil. I imagine the designers of the Auschwitz's gas chambers were also proud of their "good" work. Yeah I ain't empathizing with them either and you can call that a "blind spot"
Where in the parent comment do you see them saying they are objectively “right”?
I read it as honestly subjective: “I see morality this way, you see it another way. If you act in a way that my morality deems evil, I will judge you for it regardless of how it fits into your belief system.”
If you can conclusively prove that liberals are evil, be my guest. Give me your rhetorical coup-de-grace that annihilates half of America's voting bloc.
Even the Nazis retained the ability to judge their opponents when WWII ended. Pity that their opponents were hangmen that wanted them to answer for murder.
Is your point here that people who do wrong always or usually know they’re doing something wrong? If it is, I disagree. Most things I consider morally abhorrent are justifiable under some morality system. And I think for most humans, it’s easier to believe you’re one of the good guys than one of the bad guys.
I could empathize with someone who relishes and jokes about killing people outside their ideology; these feelings are certainly familiar to me. But as a Christian, the thought of willfully doing so makes me feel ill, since I make great efforts to get those sadistic feelings *out* of my head. Someone who treats death with such cheery indifference is willingly forfeiting part of their humanity. To me, that's the definition of evil.
Most evil people don't see themselves as evil and do not feel shame about what they do. In fact, they often frame their actions as a crusade.
