# Whether morality is primarily about social/interpersonal stuff or about dealing with reality effectively

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**Created:** [October 22, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/whether-morality-is-primarily-about-social-interpersonal-stuff-or-about-dealing-with-reality-effectively/372 "2021-10-22T13:44:17Z")
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### Author: ![ingracke](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/ingracke/32/256_2.png) [@ingracke](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ingracke)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/whether-morality-is-primarily-about-social-interpersonal-stuff-or-about-dealing-with-reality-effectively/372/26 "2021-10-23T03:35:33Z")

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> [@Max](#):
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> Do you think your _future self_ is a different person to your _current self_ ? (my answer: yes)

This view doesn’t actually match what you said in [your blog post](https://xk.io/n/10017):

> (Sometimes those projects/decisions only impact a single person, in which case they’re probably amoral – that’s okay. Morality is about interpersonal harm, and people are free to live their own lives (wrt themselves) how they wish. People are also under no obligation to maximize morality – just to not act _immorally_ – so provided there’s no malice, most goals are okay.)

How would it even _be possible_ for a project/decision to only impact a single person if you are defining your future self and your current self as different people?

Also, from in the first sentence of that quote, it seems like you are saying that decisions that only impact a single person are probably amoral. I took that to mean that you think that morality _doesn’t apply to decisions that only impact a single person_.

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