 What would you do if you didn't care about being a good person? What would you do if you didn't care about anybody but yourself? Now this kind of thought Immediately, I think of well, that's what that's something bad people would do and you know, that's That's psychos that think like that that are just purely selfish So I immediately have this reaction of you know, I don't want to think like that. I don't want to be a psycho I don't want to be some kind of evil person so Something kind of stops me from Comfortably thinking that way and you know, maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it's good to avoid being a psycho And avoid being evil that seems like might be a good idea But on the other hand it seems like there might be some value in letting ourselves think that way Because this this notion of you know, I want to be good. I don't want to be bad I you know, I want to make moral ethical decisions It can be a very heavy weight. It can be very heavy. I mean it can be This conscience this idea, you know, judging ourselves judging the ethics and morality of everything we do That can be very heavy and of course we can bear it Righteously and say you know, this is this is what it takes to be a good person And I want to be a good person and it may be in fact, it's a very good idea But as a thought experiment It might be useful to Imagine lifting that requirement just to see What would I do if I didn't care about those things? What if I didn't care about being moral and ethical? What if I was a supervillain Imagine if I was Evil I was a villain and don't have to add Evil things like oh, you know, I want to kill people or something because you know Just you're just adding this like things that villains would do you don't have to add anything that a villain would do and Just they make up stuff that a villain would do but imagine if you didn't care about not being a villain What would you do if you only cared about yourself or? Whatever you choose to care about minus any concerns about morality and ethics Yeah, it immediately starts to get uncomfortable I find and maybe that's a good sign for anybody that you know has a conscience and wants to behave ethically Maybe it should be a little bit uncomfortable to imagine removing that conscience just as a thought experiment But I think there's value in it because we can uncover certain things that Maybe we're we're kind of pushing down and I think for many people this this is going to be very different for each person Maybe some people they're like what's a conscience? You know, that's normal for me. You know what other people well That's not my problem. You know, so some people this might not even be significant at all But I think for many people they're They're so concerned about not hurting other people about being kind and helpful to other people and Also, you know how we're being being seen as a as a good person and by others and also by ourselves just this You know living up to this ethical moral ideal for many people This is really a heavy weight that Pushes down on our desires. So our desires can be seen. You know, I I can't be concerned about What I want. Yeah, I might want this and that but I have responsibilities. I have duties. I have obligations I have things that I need to do People that depend on me and all those things can I mean those are very strong requirements that fill up our way of looking at things and In some cases, maybe not leaving much for ourselves so I Like to imagine this thought experiment Start with imagining you have no conscience. No ethics. No morality. You don't care. You're it's you're purely You're you can be a villain not you're not not not you're trying to be a villain But just that you don't care if you're a villain. You just use whatever you want. Just imagine what you want Regardless of any concerns about what's right just as a As a picture of some part of yourself and Imagine what you want and then add the layers of ethics What is right? the needs of other people that you want to support and all the other concerns that come up and Layer those on so I just as necessary So, you know you start you can say, you know I want to be an international pirate and you know and Some kind of mastermind criminal or whatever And then, you know, you could say well, you know, probably that's not a good idea For this and that reason And so you said you start to I know I actually don't want to hurt anybody, you know, I don't want to you know cause all these all this chaos and You know, I don't I don't want to have all the my own legal issues and Besides it's not even I mean for most people that are ethical. It's just it's not fun to actually hurt people It doesn't feel good to hurt other people. So we put all these all these requirements and all these adjustments on our behavior and Then maybe what we come up with is back to where we started to the way we are anyway but maybe there are some adjustments that we can make to live closer to this kind of Unhinged wild Desire that we have maybe there's some adjustments we can make to be closer to that while still being within the Bounds of what we consider to be right So by by starting with that blank slate morality and just like and leaving it out Subtracting it and then adding it back in we can maybe see how it fits in So I'd love to hear your feedback on this. Is this a terrible idea? This is possibly my worst idea ever. It may lead to some bad things But you know, it's a thought experiment. So I'd love to hear how it goes and what you think of it