[offended tone] I have a sanctity axis, you know.
(to be clear: the speaker is me, i think this would be a hilarious way to state that i have morality!disgust towards a thing while talking to someone who would know what i meant, i try not to let the sanctity axis have the final say on actual ethical decisions [although i endorse it a fair amount] but it is still definitely there saying that [for example] addictive drugs and spying on your friends are bad)
IDK if they’ve said this to other people, but they definitely said it to me while I was discussing drug use (by other people). I was intrigued because I definitely *don’t* have a sanctity axis. I can be disgusted by something but, intuitively, it’d never occur to me to link this feeling to morality.
Who else does(n’t) have a Sanctity Axis?
(BTW: I consider spying on people to be a bad idea for perfectly normal rule-utilitarian reasons.)
I excised mine with fire.
(I did this by trying to excise my entire sense of disgust, which didn’t fully work and probably wasn’t a good idea anyway. If you do want to get rid of your sanctity axis, I recommend asking ozymandias271 about it for safer methods.)
…why would I want to self-modify away my sanctity axis?
I know not to write legislation or start an activist group with it, but most of the things that it thinks are disgusting and wrong are things that I should, in fact avoid.
And considering that some of the other components of my mind seem to think some obligation exists to try novel experiences, especially when opportunities to do so are rare, having something around to counterbalance that is probably good.
Cane beetles aren’t so great, but I don’t want to introduce cane toads to my brain.
As long as I can treat it as personal guidelines and not as the True Moral Law, and as long as I am willing to question its outputs if they seem too ridiculous, it seems like something I should keep.
update: I seem to have developed a purity axis about not having a purity axis. My purity axis is extremely confused about what it wants to do with this
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