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You're fighting against a lifetime of upbringing, indoctrination, redefinition of meanings and conditioning. It allows us humans to exist in a state where something as simple as "do not take from others" can be made so very different to "pay up or go to jail" just because.

The brain gets wired to accept and try make some sense of the contradictions , where there are none. That is why we argue about every single little thing in the public sphere: Because there is no base set of morals or axioms that we can use to derive more complex ones to address complex situations.



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