Like, thinking beautiful, virtuous thoughts is absolutely fantastic. Absolute heroin for social animals. ‘I am good. I am just. I am worthy and right.’ But if you can’t make those thoughts intersubjective, if you can’t make them real for the man with the weapon in the dark, they’re just mental utopia porn for us to get drunk on the brain reward chemicals for finding ‘a’ tribe. Truisms aren’t enough. Like physics, if it works it works. If it doesn’t, you need to reevaluate the model.