Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people? - eviltoast

I was gonna include a third option about how money is easier to achieve without considering the morality of your actions but that’s not really a philosophy as much as it is an objective fact.

  • SunlitSorceress@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Most things emerge from complex systems.

    “A causes B” or “B causes A” sounds tidy, but obscures the reality.

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      Even in a complex system, though, if something doesn’t happen continuously it’s bound to have characteristic conditions that precede it. Describing it as cause and effect is a function of language, then.