RE: Morality from the ground up
August 1, 2017 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2017 at 9:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 1, 2017 at 7:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: At the most elemental, I'd say morality is a system of right action. But rightness implies a goal-- if an action serves that goal, it's right; if it doesn't it isn't. Happiness seems to be one. But whose happiness? That of humans? All living things? The mind boggles.Does it? Why? You do this all day everyday without thinking about it. When's the last time you kicked a person -or- a dog? You're expressing frustration at a simple concept learned so well and so early that we take it for granted as the background of our interactions.
Quote:It seems then that morality is really the language of reconciling feelings about actions: I don't like when I'm hurt, and you say you don't either, so let's make a rule that nobody should be allowed to hurt others.
That's known as rational self interest. Isn't that exactly what you asked for? "Nobody hurt me" becomes "nobody should hurt others"..because, rationally, we recognize that we are the others to everyone else.
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