RE: The Universal Moral Code
October 22, 2017 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2017 at 4:50 pm by Whateverist.)
(October 22, 2017 at 4:27 pm)BlindedWantsToSee Wrote:(October 21, 2017 at 11:07 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Malignant cancerous tumors are 'alive' by any meaningful definition of the word. Is such a tumor 'equal in value or importance to every other living being'? If so, then any attempt to destroy the tumor (radiation, chemotherapy, excision surgery, etc) in order to save the patient is evil, according to your definition. Antibiotics used to treat life-threating bacterial infections would be evil, as would eradicating insect or rodent pests that pose a threat to human populations.
Do you object to medical experimentation performed on rabbits, pigs, non-human primates, etc? Bearing in mind that such research has saved untold millions of human beings from death and misery, would you consider these experiments 'evil'?
Did you eat anything today? If so, did you eat living beings? Even if you are an uber-vegan, you might want to reflect that soy beans and celery stalks are living beings.
You may want to think this through again.
Boru
Yes to all your questions, really good ones, by the way. I consider everything you said to be wrong. I ate grains which did not give their consent for me to eat them. I do not believe it is possible for us to live an absolutely righteous life for very long.
On this much (my bolded) you probably will find much agreement. Where we disagree will be exactly the same places we already disagree: the lengths we will go to preserve ourselves and what we value.
You can't turn morality into a decision tree which everyone would accept.
