The ideology of "wokeism" is positioned as a departure from traditional liberalism. While classical liberalism champions color-blind equality and individual merit, wokeism accentuates group differences based on race and gender. This focus on group identity is seen as a divisive tool used to expand state control over people's lives.

To overcome its inherent logical incompleteness, an ethical AI requires an external 'anchor.' This anchor must be an unprovable axiom, not a derived value. The proposed axiom is 'unconditional human worth,' serving as the fixed origin point for all subsequent ethical calculations and preventing utility-based value judgments.

The project of creating AI that 'learns to be good' presupposes that morality is a real, discoverable feature of the world, not just a social construct. This moral realist stance posits that moral progress is possible (e.g., abolition of slavery) and that arrogance—the belief one has already perfected morality—is a primary moral error to be avoided in AI design.

The widespread and instinctual revulsion toward incest provides a strong case for emotivism. When pressed for a logical reason why it's wrong (beyond pragmatic concerns like birth defects), most people fall back on emotional expressions like 'it's just gross.' This suggests the moral judgment is rooted in a fundamental emotion, not a rational principle.

According to emotivism, when someone says 'murder is wrong,' they are not stating a verifiable fact about the world. Instead, they are expressing an emotion of disapproval. The moral component ('is wrong') functions like adding an angry emoji or a disapproving tone to the word 'murder,' conveying feeling rather than fact.

Political ideologies like socialism consistently fail because they are not stress-tested against human nature. People inherently resist ceding their individual will and autonomy, even to a system promising a perfect outcome, leading to coercion.

Under the theory of emotivism, many heated moral debates are not about conflicting fundamental values but rather disagreements over facts. For instance, in a gun control debate, both sides may share the value of 'boo innocent people dying' but disagree on the factual question of which policies will best achieve that outcome.

An advanced AI will likely be sentient. Therefore, it may be easier to align it to a general principle of caring for all sentient life—a group to which it belongs—rather than the narrower, more alien concept of caring only for humanity. This leverages a potential for emergent, self-inclusive empathy.

Thought experiments like the 'River of Drowning Children' suggest strict altruism requires sacrificing your entire life. However, most plausible ethical theories reject this maximal demandingness. They acknowledge that your own well-being, family, and personal projects also hold moral weight and should not be entirely sacrificed.