I've seen this come up a few times lately.
Somebody synthesized perfluorocubane recently. ("fluorinated esters as starting materials with dissolved fluorine gas in a perfluorinated solvent at low temperatures".) Methodological naturalism is fine. The philosophical framework of a knowable universe is fine, too.
A whole bunch of other things are not at all fine, but all of those come down to something simple that has nothing at all to do with social collapse or mysterious moral enervations.
Greed is a sin.
That's it. All the rationalizations about how some particular flavour of greed is virtue, really it is, are how we get the things not being fine. Greed is still a sin.
That's all. There's nothing more to it. Try to avoid having the mammonite propaganda get to you.
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