Essentially, it's like what god says in futurama: "Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do."
When I call a person "bad" that's shorthand for "a person who has done bad things in the past and/or seems likely to do bad things in the future." Same with "good." On a formal level, it's really something of an acceptable category error or, more charitably, a figurative description.
It's all part of the (disheartening) tendency of people to label each other with descriptors that describe each person's actions and beliefs and then bootstrap that descriptor into a content claim about some essential quality of the person.
When I call a person "bad" that's shorthand for "a person who has done bad things in the past and/or seems likely to do bad things in the future." Same with "good." On a formal level, it's really something of an acceptable category error or, more charitably, a figurative description.
It's all part of the (disheartening) tendency of people to label each other with descriptors that describe each person's actions and beliefs and then bootstrap that descriptor into a content claim about some essential quality of the person.
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
