(November 19, 2017 at 7:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(November 19, 2017 at 6:53 pm)bennyboy Wrote: No doubt. A lot of special pleading is likely to develop. We must, of course, save cute little baby seals. But mosquitoes-- fuck those assholes! Kill them with fire! We'll start making a list of rules about which animals should / shouldn't be worried about. In general, I think we'll find that the more human an animal is, the cuter it is, the more people will include under the umbrella of morality. That makes sense: our altruistic instincts extend beyond our own genetic DNA, but the degree of extension probably varies among individuals.
The above would be suggestive of a subjective..not objective, morality. Is it possible that some of these problems and some special pleading might vanish when subjected to an objective moral framework?
Like what?
