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You had me at the "grammar"!!!!

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GM: I think there are three corollaries to this theory worth exploring:

1. this moral grammar confirms my opinion (https://open.substack.com/pub/thelivingfossils/p/morality-is-a-coordination-game-coordination?r=1m606h&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=53617106) that morality has always a rational origin, i.e. a bottom-up evolution,

2. this explains also why depenalisation starts with the theorization of "victimless crime" (e.g. "'e dindu nuffin", "maaan imma only smokin' a joint"),

3. this MAY explain why secularization harbrings moral relaxation, i.e. many folk-interpretation of moral law identifies the victim with God ("Jesus cries" is a common folk catholic trope).

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Lovely post. mind you, it is probably grammar's morality, rather than grammar of morality (which we may feel it should be). But morality is an outcome of the worldbuilding urge, it's grammar is like any grammar/structure we speak/build and ends up describing/sheltering our squishy halves from the future with the mistakes and regrets of our pasts. Yours in empathy.

see https://www.academia.edu/40978261/Why_we_should_an_introduction_by_memoir_into_the_implications_of_the_Egalitarian_Revolution_of_the_Paleolithic_or_Anyone_for_cake

Don't forget the world can be a victim, that mirror of us that is not us, but just as illusory as the self.

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