RE: But how good are we really??
October 10, 2017 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2017 at 1:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-that these binary wonderings are incapable of adequately capturing or commenting on the human condition in the first place.
Running with it, though, if the field of our moral decisions is determined by our genetics and our opportunity then that;s all there is to our "character" in the first place. Good Character™ is the sum of desires juxtaposed against the dearth of opportunity.
One wonders how this applies in scenarios a little more dire and complicated than fibbing to ones landlord or sleeping with multiple men. For example. I detest killing. I find it loathsome. I have no desire to do it, and yet I'm both willing and capable. How do we run the moral calculus on that and come to some comment on a binary nature of man that doesn't and never did exist in the first place?
Running with it, though, if the field of our moral decisions is determined by our genetics and our opportunity then that;s all there is to our "character" in the first place. Good Character™ is the sum of desires juxtaposed against the dearth of opportunity.
One wonders how this applies in scenarios a little more dire and complicated than fibbing to ones landlord or sleeping with multiple men. For example. I detest killing. I find it loathsome. I have no desire to do it, and yet I'm both willing and capable. How do we run the moral calculus on that and come to some comment on a binary nature of man that doesn't and never did exist in the first place?
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