We humans like to pretend we are truth seeking and ethical.

Instead, we tend to start from "what I and those around me believe must be true" and "what I and those around me do must be moral."

Then we work backwards to justify ourselves.

Can we find the bravery to think and act differently?

Imagine all moral and political philosophers throughout history and today asked the “who matters?” question.

Institutions can be sociopathic.

Systems that don’t care operated largely by people who do.

It’s tempting to want to bolt on specific, hard-coded beliefs to the #Sentientism worldview’s “evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.”

But as soon as any worldview bakes in specific beliefs it becomes, by definition, dogmatic.

Sentientism is anti-dogma.

Most humans do care about sentience and sentient beings.

We just need to get serious and consistent about it.

Really fast.

For so many reasons.

Including selfish ones.

Because we’re sentient beings too.

In range of London? Come join our friendly Sentientism worldview meetup on 15th March at The Spread Eagle pub. All sentient beings are welcome, whether you agree with Sentientism or not :)
https://sentientism.info/lunch-or-just-a-drink-in-london-on-15th-march-and-some-other-updates