RE: pop morality
January 28, 2016 at 6:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2016 at 6:03 am by robvalue.)
@All
If you define morality as anything other than acting in the best interests of people (and animals), then I don't much care about your definition. You're quite welcome to it, but I'm not going to debate it with you like it's of any actual real significance.
If you don't even know what helps people and what harms them, you must be seriously maladjusted.
It's the obsession with there being a "right answer" and wanting to project things onto an external opinion for some reason that brings up these ridiculous ideas about objectively morality.
I was thinking of doing a new thread on this, actually. There are objective moralities. An infinite possible number. Anyone can pick any one of them, for use either permanently or temporarily. Just like there would be an infinite number of ways you could "measure" things, but we tend to just use the ways that have some sort of practical use. Many of these objective moralities will be utterly useless, and even dogmatically minded people who pretend not to understand empathy will instantly reject some of them.
If you define morality as anything other than acting in the best interests of people (and animals), then I don't much care about your definition. You're quite welcome to it, but I'm not going to debate it with you like it's of any actual real significance.
If you don't even know what helps people and what harms them, you must be seriously maladjusted.
It's the obsession with there being a "right answer" and wanting to project things onto an external opinion for some reason that brings up these ridiculous ideas about objectively morality.
I was thinking of doing a new thread on this, actually. There are objective moralities. An infinite possible number. Anyone can pick any one of them, for use either permanently or temporarily. Just like there would be an infinite number of ways you could "measure" things, but we tend to just use the ways that have some sort of practical use. Many of these objective moralities will be utterly useless, and even dogmatically minded people who pretend not to understand empathy will instantly reject some of them.
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