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What do you think happens when you attempt to build a civilization or community based on a social structure that penalizes individuals when they act according to their true nature? Think that social structure will be stable? Durable?

Do you think it possible to own no property yet still be happy when happiness is directly and inextricably linked to the creation, utilization, and exchange of property?

Links from today’s episode:

Joseph Nieto

Lizzie Borden: A Woman Accused

The Trial of Lizzie Borden: Selected Maps & Diagrams

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If it can be proven that it is at all times beneficial to pursue moral action over immoral action, the individual will always choose moral action. Why? Because the individual lives in the pursuit of his own happiness and it is profitable to do so.

Convincing every person of this will require no force, coercion, or trickery—all, by definition, immoral acts. And neither will it require 7, 8, 9 billion people to attend lectures on morality.

But how do we know this is true? And how is something this daunting achievable? It just takes a few interested people.

And in Mind Over Murder this week: The Lizzy Bordon saga begins.

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In order to structure a moral society and do it properly without force or violence in its construction or process, we must make it a scientific endeavor and base our structure on observable and corroborable reality. We’ll need to base our science on postulates, and, according to Ockham’s Razor, we should base it on as few postulates as is absolutely necessary.

But what are these postulates? And what tools can we use to make absolutely sure these postulates are true?

To discover the true nature of man, we make observations by taking random samplings of as many diverse groups of individuals as possible. We can then make generalizations or hypotheses about these smaller groups to see if they apply to all individuals.

This discovery need not be ground-breaking, but there are two things which it must be: it must be true with a 100% record of 0 failures and it must apply to all individuals without exception.

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Galileo had a choice between two prevailing theories that described the structure of our solar system. It was possible to make accurate predictions about the movement of the planets and other celestial bodies, with acceptable precision, using both the Ptolemaic structure and the Copernican structure.

What tool did Galileo use in his determination that the Copernican structure was the correct one and why was he so persuaded as to go against the reigning dogma, under penalty of death?

And why is it important to us?

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This week's topic is of particular importance to those of us who have kids, specifically of school age and younger.

But don’t let that cause you to tune out or skip this episode. Even if you don’t have kids or your kids are grown and out of the house, you may know someone with kids to whom this may be helpful. Frankly, it could even be helpful to you.

Two papers on the effects of video on the mind's cognitive filters:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844646/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711548115

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**I mistakenly uploaded the incorrect file and the original episode had to be deleted. This is the correct version of episode 18.**

Morality does not imply universal goodness and neither does it imply rightness. Just because your actions are moral, that does not automatically make them rational.

So, what does it take? What is the test for the most grand goal that is simultaneously Moral and Rational?

To put it more succinctly, how can you know that you are absolutely right?

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Knowing the concept of absolute good gives us an unprecedented advantage in that we are able to determine, with precision, whether a process, action, event, or condition is a relative good or an absolute good.

Find out how to use the simplest, the most black or white test for absolute good called the Universal Can Opener.

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In physics, you can’t build anything based on false premises or invalid logic, so it should be of little surprise then that you can’t do it in volition either.

Our 6000 year, unbroken historical record of mass murder, torture of innocents, seizure and destruction of property, embezzlement, arson, vandalism, and fraud proves that beyond doubt.

But if truth and validity together have worked so well as a standard of rightness in physics, does that mean that it will work and work well when it comes to human action?

AH! There’s the elephant in the room.

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I’m not here to disparage Aristotle—I can only hope to achieve 1/100th of what Aristotle achieved, and I have all of the modern conveniences.

So, how is it that a brilliant mind such as Aristotle’s could have made such a blunder; how is that possible?

The answer is simple.

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This is the story of how the term “settled science,” is not only oxymoronic but a demonstration of the complete misunderstanding of the workings of the scientific method.

The story started long ago, but it continues today with something that has been in the news recently: the connections between depression and Serotonin. Regardless of your interest level, this is a perfect example of how well the scientific method actually does work, when it is properly applied.

Paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720080145.htm

Summary: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/no-evidence-depression-caused-low-serotonin-levels-finds-comprehensive-review

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