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[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

So in the cases where I burn corpses, and wear a condom while fucking my sister, wouldn't it be better if my reasons were to stop disease and genetic defect?

If someone asked why I was wearing a condom I could say "so she doesn't get pregnant, also, you want in on this Dad?", and that's better than "because"

[–] kopasz7@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Reasons are a human invention to help make sense of the world. If you want to base everything on logical grounds you will run into two things mainly:

  1. Limits of knowledge. Knowledge is always incomplete, as more of it opens up more questions. There are things you intuitively know are good, but can't prove why they are.

  2. Systemic limits of logical reasoning. A sufficiently powerful and consistent formal system (such as formal logic) is incomplete, it cannot prove its own correctness. (Gödel's incompleteness theorems)

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, but it is better to give a valid reason, as opposed to "because", right?