RE: Abortion is love
September 14, 2015 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 12:21 pm by robvalue.)
This is how I see it:
No worth. People have no intrinsic worth. Nothing does. Things only have worth to [something] and so is subjective and not inherent. At best you could call objective worth the weighted average of its worth to every sentient being in the universe. But who gets to decide the weightings?
"Worth" is an abstract concept, provided by a thinking agent to help itself make decisions. This would include whatever worth we have to bizarre beings such as "gods".
To provide evidence of intrinsic worth, you'd have to define it in such a way as to be objectively measurable. I doubt this is possible while retaining any notion of what "worth" is without begging the question; especially if we all have to objectively end up with the same measurement.
What about animals? What worth would they get from this measurement? Same as humans? 50%? 10%?
No worth. People have no intrinsic worth. Nothing does. Things only have worth to [something] and so is subjective and not inherent. At best you could call objective worth the weighted average of its worth to every sentient being in the universe. But who gets to decide the weightings?
"Worth" is an abstract concept, provided by a thinking agent to help itself make decisions. This would include whatever worth we have to bizarre beings such as "gods".
To provide evidence of intrinsic worth, you'd have to define it in such a way as to be objectively measurable. I doubt this is possible while retaining any notion of what "worth" is without begging the question; especially if we all have to objectively end up with the same measurement.
What about animals? What worth would they get from this measurement? Same as humans? 50%? 10%?
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