More things we aren’t allowed to say publicly anymore
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It's a fascinating subject with many implications.
That's why when I discuss morality I always start not with "how should we perceive this action: right or wrong" but instead I decide what outcome I want and then decide how the perspective of everything else must be to get that outcome. I'm no physicist but at the quantum level of things, if you know what your answer is already, can you work backwards to determine what everything else would need to be to 100% accuracy to get that answer? However, if you don't know the answer, can you predict it to 100% accuracy? Morality to me isn't about people's perceptions of right and wrong because that will always differ, it's instead entirely about what outcome you want to achieve.
It's a incredibly interesting subject because it throws alot of traditional ideas out the window and really puts the universe in your hands. It's fascinating too because the idea seeps into popular culture and rears itself in unexpected ways. My favorite use was in the Assassins Creed videogame, where to stop a disaster the ancient aliens were gonna use some thingabob to make every person on the planet think "We are safe" and reality would rewrite itself to make it happen. Consensus and belief in something can be very powerful and when there isn't things start falling apart.
And what you say about outcomes is on the money as well. There's definitely something to the Law of Attraction and similar things. You can't magically turn your car into another by thinking it, but you can nudge the outcome of getting a new one into your favor.