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    <title>Metaethics</title>
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    <h1>Metaethics</h1>

    <h2 class="only_in_print">http://metaethics.org</h2>

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        <li>
          Everything is a structure, almost everything contains structures,
          is embedded in structures and is part of structures. You are a
          structure, your family is a structure, society, country, the human
          race… everything.
        </li>

        <li>
          When a change strengthens a structure, that's what we call "good
          for [that structure]". If the strengthened structure feels highly
          relevant to us we simply call this kind of change "good". When a change
          weakens a structure, that's what we call "bad for [that
          structure]". If the weakened structure feels highly relevant to us
          we simply call this kind of change "bad".
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        <li>
          The more relevant a structure feels to us, the more any
          strengthening of that structure appears "good" – and any weakening of
          that structure appears "evil".
        </li>

        <li>
          To make a person desire a certain change either show that it
          strengthens a structure that is relevant to them, or make a structure
          that is strengthened by that change relevant to them. To make a person
          fear a change either show that it weakens a structure that is relevant
          to them, or make a structure that is weakened by that change relevant
          to them.
        </li>

        <li>
          The feeling of relevancy towards structures is innate,
          as are the mechanisms by which structures become relevant.
        </li>

        <li>
          Some structures actually are relevant to us and our species in a physical
          way, like environment and reproduction. Others we depend on in more
          abstract ways, like order, authority or good argumentation. Others yet
          feel relevant by "mirroring", like the characters in a story or people
          we are told about on the news. Some structures are only ideas or
          non-referring concepts that we feel to be relevant to us for different
          reasons.
        </li>

        <li>
          Likely, you will find what some call "inner peace" by aligning all
          your relevant structures in a concentric way, thus that the inner,
          closer structures support the larger, encompassing structures.
        </li>

        <li>
          Likely, you will find happiness by giving yourself up to the
          structure that feels most relevant to you – while not hurting any other
          relevant structure.
        </li>

        <li>
          Likely, you will be considered a "good" human being if you help
          other human beings to align and support their relevant structures.
        </li>

        <li>
          Don't act as you want others to act towards you, that's selfish.
          Don't act in a way that should become a general rule, that's
          self-delusional. Act in a way that to the best of your knowledge
          supports all relevant structures.
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    <p>
      What do <em>you</em> think?
      <a href="https://github.com/iDushan/metaethics/issues">Join the discussion!</a>
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    <p><span class="only_in_print">http://metaethics.org</span> <span class=
    "only_on_screen">This</span> is a one-page-site "about ethics". Metaethics
    is a philosophical discipline (<span class="only_on_screen"><a href=
    "http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/" target="_blank">learn more at Stanford's
    website</a></span><span class="only_in_print">learn more at
    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/</span>), these bulletpoints
    are both my take on Metaethics and my personal philosophy-to-live-by.</p>

    <p>I couldn't have come up with these few thoughts without <em>my</em>
    relevant structures: my scintillating wife &amp; audacious partner-in-crime
    <a href="http://twitter.com/ellidotme" target="_blank">Elli</a>, our two beautiful kids, our parents, our
    teachers, our <a href="http://mehreinfach.de" target="_blank">friends and colleagues</a>
    <span class="only_in_print">at Mehreinfach</span> and all you other crazies
    we meet every day! Thank you, guys.</p>

    <p><em id="signature">Dushan Wegner (<a href=
    "mailto:dushan@mehreinfach.de?subject=metaethics">mail</a>, <a href=
    "http://twitter.com/iDushan">twitter</a>)</em></p>

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