RE: (LONG) "I Don't Know" as a Good Answer in Ethics
November 21, 2017 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2017 at 1:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 21, 2017 at 12:58 pm)alpha male Wrote: Why can't reason result in an absolute?Are the relevant specifics of every moral situation absolutely the same? Can there be -no- moral situation in which the statement "you should never strangle your daughter" is untrue?
If there's even one circumstance in which you might entertain strangling your daughter (or, say, killing your son?) as a good or virtuous thing...then the statement cannot be absolutely true.
So you tell us, Alpha...is there -no- circumstance in which it would be virtuous to grab a knife and some rope..and haul your kid up a mountain, or nail him to a board?
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