#mark hopkins

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Cover of the menu at the Mark Hopkins hotel, San Francisco (1946).

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What Mark has done here is assume that morals are objective, then use an even-more abstract objective concept (a god who is perfectly moral but conveniently unavailable) to elucidate that. Unless you already believe, it’s total gibberish.

There is no good reason to think that morals are objective and there is no good reason to believe in a god. 

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San Francisco’s California Street cable car service opened in 1878, started by Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and other wealthy businessmen who wanted transportation from downtown to the mansions they were building on Nob Hill. In the late 1800s there were 8 cable car companies in the city.

Photo by Eadweard Muybridge, 1878.

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