RE: Trophy Hunting Good?!
November 20, 2017 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2017 at 1:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It seems an almost fantastic leap to suggest morality is obsolete simply because I've declined to bicker with you about what any floating objective moral metrics -are- in my own views, when I'm only trying to establish why some specific metric simply can't be one of them by definition. Why a deference to subjective metrics expresses itself as incoherence, special pleading, or ambiguity down the line. Turning any attendant moral calculus into meaningless busywork.
In context of trophy hunting, I'm not aware of anything that would make it objectively immoral, in and of itself. I leave it to those who do think it's immoral to make me aware of whatever it is that makes it so. You suggested another type of hunting that I do think is objectively immoral, that of hunting some novel species of rhino to extinction. What is it that you think makes that specific example immoral, do you think that whatever reason you give will be meaningfully subjective or meaningfully objective....and does it apply to trophy hunting in and of itself? I think we're more likely to come to an understaning if we start from a point of mutual agreement..even if we don't end on one. I doubt, for example, that the cuteness and humaness of a rhino is what leads you to offer that as a potential example of immoral hunting.
In context of trophy hunting, I'm not aware of anything that would make it objectively immoral, in and of itself. I leave it to those who do think it's immoral to make me aware of whatever it is that makes it so. You suggested another type of hunting that I do think is objectively immoral, that of hunting some novel species of rhino to extinction. What is it that you think makes that specific example immoral, do you think that whatever reason you give will be meaningfully subjective or meaningfully objective....and does it apply to trophy hunting in and of itself? I think we're more likely to come to an understaning if we start from a point of mutual agreement..even if we don't end on one. I doubt, for example, that the cuteness and humaness of a rhino is what leads you to offer that as a potential example of immoral hunting.
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