RE: Morality versus afterlife
January 11, 2016 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2016 at 5:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 11, 2016 at 5:36 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Do you have a reference for an official position regarding moral utilitarianism to support the claim that there are no circumstances in which the taking of human life is justified ? If you have one I'm happy to concede.Why should I be required to provide you with references for a claim which I have not made? Don't be a dipshit.....I know you're better than this.
Quote:If utilitarianism is based upon maximizing happiness then it logically follows that there is a situation in which the taking of human life is morally justified.Genocide, your example, being one of them..in your estimation? Perhaps you could offer a scenario in which genocide is justified by the well-being of sentient entities. It;s your contention...provide such an example...I'd like to see what your trigger is, precisely where you'd lose it and go gestapo on us. I'm gonna stay home on that day, in that situation..if it ever occurs. I don't want to take the chance that you're there and newly converted to your version of moral utilitarianism.
Quote:There are three states of happiness; happy (a positive happiness value), unhappiness (a negative happiness value), and neutral (zero happiness value). If a person's life is a net sum negative happiness value how does your moral system not justify the killing of that person? A person who is dead would have a zero happiness value. Zero is greater than a negative number. It's simple math. So, in my understanding, utilitarianism teaches the taking of human life is justified under the previous conditions.We've already discussed your "understanding". Like I said...altering the definition of moral utilitarianism would not stop you from seeing boogeymen.
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