A Mind So Open, It Contains Nothing

Historically, humans have been monstrously bad at “ethical” thinking. 

Nearly every smart person rationalized the obvious-in-retrospect moral horrors of their day [CoughThomasJeffersonCough]. And for all intents and purposes, every smart person today* either rationalizes [CoughNdGTCough] or simply ignores factory farming, the most straightforward ethical “question” of our day. 

So it is understandable – important, even – to question current morality. 

But a fully open mind contains nothing. 

Or to put it another way: By always questioning everything, you accomplish nothing.

By ignoring our current real world of unnecessary extreme suffering, and competing instead in the ever-expanding expected-value game of nematodes and future robots and electrons, you create a world with more suffering than is necessary. 

And to me, that’s the very definition of immoral.

*An even higher percentage of smart people not only unquestioningly believes that humanity is a net good, but that continuing humanity is, by far, the highest ethical priority. That assumption is what people should be questioning!