RE: On Moral Authorities
November 10, 2016 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 6:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As I said in my last post, we could disagree as to what constituted help and harm all day long, the nature of those two things. Irrelevant to me. If our notions are in agreement, good. If they aren't, oh well.
They seem...to me, to be fairly self explanatory. Importantly, with regard to the foundation you offered...it's trivially easy to show that you can do something that helps someone...that doesn't necessarrily make them happy or lead to the happiest human life. Meanwhile, you can harm someone in ways that just might lead to the happiest human life. That;s why we have a fundamenal disconnect, you and I...though I imagine we'd come to the same conclusions about some of the same things. Hell, probably even -most- of the same conclusions about -most- of the same things.
If you were really fuzzy about why harm is my negative metric, ask yourself why it's wrong to rape.
If you were really fuzzy about why I use help as my positive metric, ask yourself why it's good to save a life.
They seem...to me, to be fairly self explanatory. Importantly, with regard to the foundation you offered...it's trivially easy to show that you can do something that helps someone...that doesn't necessarrily make them happy or lead to the happiest human life. Meanwhile, you can harm someone in ways that just might lead to the happiest human life. That;s why we have a fundamenal disconnect, you and I...though I imagine we'd come to the same conclusions about some of the same things. Hell, probably even -most- of the same conclusions about -most- of the same things.
If you were really fuzzy about why harm is my negative metric, ask yourself why it's wrong to rape.
If you were really fuzzy about why I use help as my positive metric, ask yourself why it's good to save a life.
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