RE: Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?
May 8, 2016 at 8:07 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 8:08 am by Excited Penguin.)
(May 8, 2016 at 8:01 am)robvalue Wrote: Laws are not meant to be morality.
Nothing objectively means anything, yes. Subjectively, things mean plenty.
What does it even mean to say a moral system is "correct"? It can be internally consistent, and it can be very persuasive, and it can be "natural", but I don't see how "correct" comes into it anywhere. Before the goals of morality have been agreed, how can any judgement be made?
If you're just assuming what the goals are, then you've just declared your own version of morality to be morality itself.
We can already easily examine the outcomes of actions in objective ways. Why also measure this as "morality"? That seems redundant, and it's why my morality is much more complex.
The goals are eliminating harm and maximizing happiness. Pretty straightforward and obvious.
Can you think of any situation in which the word "correct" could be applied?
Laws are meant to enforce morality, not to be it. I never said that.
