RE: So how much should we concern ourselves with morality? How much is enough?
July 16, 2017 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2017 at 6:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The idea is that through hypotheticals and play acting we can reach a set of moral conclusions that may be real handy for moments when there is no time to conduct any sort of thorough moral reasoning...or so that we might instill habitual responses for those instances in which our moral agency is severely compromised.
While it's easy, in a polite and moral society, to wonder how important it is, we only wonder that because of our privilege. The immense amount of time we've spent on the subject (and what suffering we either inflict or suffer to be inflicted on our fellow man) demonstrates that there is still no such thing as time wasted on ethics. When poverty is eliminated, when the last person to die of hunger or to go blind from malnutrition is mourned. When we have no cause or need to engage in crime or war against our fellow man...then, maybe, an emphasis on morality will have run it's course.
While it's easy, in a polite and moral society, to wonder how important it is, we only wonder that because of our privilege. The immense amount of time we've spent on the subject (and what suffering we either inflict or suffer to be inflicted on our fellow man) demonstrates that there is still no such thing as time wasted on ethics. When poverty is eliminated, when the last person to die of hunger or to go blind from malnutrition is mourned. When we have no cause or need to engage in crime or war against our fellow man...then, maybe, an emphasis on morality will have run it's course.
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