Dr. J. Budziszewski

People might want to ask someone like Camus if everything's absurd and I shouldn't be following a religion or a code of ethics that was handed down to me.

How can I ever know what's right or wrong?

What, am I supposed to just act confused all the time?

Camus might respond by saying that religious or not, quote, all systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it.

A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly, end quote.

And this in many ways concludes the lesson of the day for Camus.

When someone disagrees with you, maybe don't nail them to a giant wooden X and sacrifice them to the owl god of the forest.

No, one of the biggest strengths of acknowledging how absurd the universe is is how flexible it allows you to be in your thinking.

You're not less capable of seeing right or wrong.

You're just more cautious about what the correct response is.

Have a good rest of your day.

Thank you.

I actually prayed to God.

I said, I don't think you're there.

And I think I'm talking to the wall.

But if you are there, you can have me.

But you're going to have to show me because I can't tell anymore.

And that was true because I'd torn up my own mind.

I want to get your opinions on AI, transhumanism, where this is all leading.

They thought that it was inevitable.