(December 30, 2015 at 3:28 pm)robvalue Wrote: Nileism: the worship of rivers.
Made up part? It's not made up. I really don't want people to do horrible stuff to each other. That is honestly how I feel. It's a subjective judgement. It's my opinion. I don't understand how you are telling me morality "doesn't exist", when it's simply an opinion; that is how I define it, anyway.
If I was merely being pragmatic, I might not care what people do to each other as long as they don't hurt me. I wouldn't just punch someone for no reason, because I'd be bringing trouble on myself. But if others were punching it out, it wouldn't matter to me.
The emotion of pragmatism I would say is just the actual motivation to want to do anything at all rather than nothing.
Your emotions are a real part of you. Acting accordingly is pragmatic. If you feel a connection to all humans, that's, as far as I know, a tangible thing in your brain.
Maybe if we try to narrow down what we're talking about.
I don't want a meteor to hit Carl because I like Carl. I will try to stop the meteor from hitting Carl because I like Carl. It is evil for the Meteor to hit Carl because I like Carl.
I don't want Bob to hit Carl because I like Carl. I will try to stop Bob from hitting Carl because I like Carl. It is evil for Bob to hit Carl because I like Carl.
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I assume that you don't find a Meteor's actions to be moral or immoral. Which would leave the bolded part as the "Morality." Do we agree on that, or for the sake of the discussion, can we agree on that? My gut says no
