the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice y/n

on the whole i incline towards no

however:

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To the extent that everyone eventually dies and thus stops doing bad things, yes.

I'm white btw.

tfw entropy = justice

questionable

contentious

Ridiculous enough question

Blue taupe is aiui the only thing the universe tends towards

i think it bends toward justin bieber. kid isn't that talented but look at him go

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards D.A.N.C.E. y/n

https://dg7kra6zb39sn.cloudfront.net/media/spotlight/page/poster-b33d393f-6ebf-40ac-a648-7a9eee57900a.jpg

basically this was a set-up for the wu tang news, i don't actually care abt morals or justice

^ this is the philosophically correct position, but most people are too weak-minded to accept it

there is no arc. there isn't even a moral universe.

should have been a poll

if there was any justice in the ilxiverse there could be hundreds of US politics december threads, all thriving and peacefully coexisting

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

there can be only one poll option

that's not what reinhold niebuhr would say iirc

insert Herzog quote blank dead-eyed amorality of bears here

bear say dead-eye hi to me

https://i.imgur.com/xeRnBi1.png

man in augsburg lunatic asylum otm imo

fyi that's from bernhard's "voice imitator"

there isn't even a moral universe.

original quote was "moral arc", not "moral universe", which makes more sense.

What I see playing out over historical times is that the complications which arise from ever more complex and populous societies tend to outpace the ethical and moral frameworks within which those societies operate, but at some point the social strain caused by bad actors weakens the society to the point where it must reconfigure itself. The reconfiguration can come from social unrest and revolution, conquest by external forces, or in rare cases from peaceful and purposeful reform.

can u guys stop harshing our mellow

the arc of the moral arc is long

much clearer yes

It's not a straightforward arc: there's backstory, flashforwards, and false narratives amidst the tropes and leitmotifs- and the risk of a possible deus ex machina at the end.

climate catastrophe will be our very rapidly approaching undoing, so whatever gains we see toward more just society will be permanently erased

the arc of the moral universe is long, with many a winding road.

Universal climate catastrophe?

Can we keep some level of level-headedness itt please

thread arc bends otherwise iirc

#everGetTheFeelingYouveBeenCheated @ lack of poll option

the moral shape of the universe is not really arc-like, it's more of a clusterfuck

that shape of the universe in full

http://bocktherobber.com.cdn.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/penis.png

insert ‘milky way’ joke here

well, there's the NSFW alert in the thread title on it's way

Which end of the shape are we, exactly?

are we at

tag yourself, i’m the third hair on the left ball working clockwise

not safe for arc

top marks

Top m-arcs, surely

the m-arc of the oral universe is s

the m-arc of the oral universe is long, but it bends towards just s

^^^

Top m-arcs, surely

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the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice

Just admit that the Justice League movie was pants and reboot the DCEU already.

it bends towards destruction, imo!

I would go with 'y' because humankind is close to extinctioning itself, which is a pretty just development for the universe on the whole imho.

truthfully, we might have another 10,000 years to run before the last human runs out of luck, but in geologic time that's pretty close to tomorrow. our present cushy way of life, where hardly anyone grows the food we eat, a million people fly places everyday at 500 mph, and there are billions of us, won't last anywhere near that long. but that's not the same as extinction.

tbh im beginning to think it might be brightening up out there

really hope so, darraghmac

What I can't parse properly is what constitutes "the moral universe" and why it is in the shape of an arc. In ballistics, the trajectory of an object describes an arc because it begins to lose energy, be captured by gravity, and falls back to earth.

History, too, is sometimes said to have an arc, but I have never really discerned a unified direction of any sort in history, except when it is viewed very parochially and across limited periods of time. As my view of history broadens to include more detail and more localities, the more meandering or chaotic it seems.

If the idea is that injustices eventually get addressed as more time passes, that seems broadly true, but it seems equally true that as more time passes, more new injustices arise and the social capacity to address them does not increase.