RE: Trophy Hunting Good?!
November 20, 2017 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2017 at 10:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's self stated in the terms objective moral framework that you are only referencing objective things. I just gave an example of how one might approach the subject with an objective moral framework..by discarding those subjective metrics. It doesn't always have to be about what claims you can make..it can just as easily be the ones you can't. Is some animal objectively cute? Objectively human like? Are these objectives metrics for morality in the first place. Is what is moral that which conforms, somehow, to cuteness and humanness as modifying qualities? This would make it more immoral, by far, to destroy a porcelain doll than an otter. Does that seem like we've grasped some meaningful comment on the subject, or like we may have made a mistake somewhere?
If you, or I, can't isolate some objectively immoral thing in x..it wouldn't make sense to call it immoral in an objective framework. We could register our subjective and selective disgust, but not a compelling moral condemnation. Mind you, I;m not saying that we don;t do this (or that there can't be a correlation between it and an objectively valid moral comment)...that your suspicions of what we'd find in common moralities runs along cuteness and humanness factors..or that we don;t conflate our disgust -as- a moral condemenation. Merely pointing out that it's not compatible with an objective framework, and that the problems associated with it are are properly owned by selective disgust, not a coherent morality.
If you, or I, can't isolate some objectively immoral thing in x..it wouldn't make sense to call it immoral in an objective framework. We could register our subjective and selective disgust, but not a compelling moral condemnation. Mind you, I;m not saying that we don;t do this (or that there can't be a correlation between it and an objectively valid moral comment)...that your suspicions of what we'd find in common moralities runs along cuteness and humanness factors..or that we don;t conflate our disgust -as- a moral condemenation. Merely pointing out that it's not compatible with an objective framework, and that the problems associated with it are are properly owned by selective disgust, not a coherent morality.
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