RE: (LONG) "I Don't Know" as a Good Answer in Ethics
November 21, 2017 at 9:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2017 at 9:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Science verifies values with regularity, exclaiming that it cannot verify a moral value is begging the central question of value in the framework of hedonism as it relates to moral naturalism. If pleasure is value..can it be measured?
A more accurate expression of what is being communicated is that a person believes that while science can verify value, it can't verify -this kind- of value. Oh, well, golly, can/can't it?
You don't..just pointing out the other side of janus' coin. We fear the worst from ourselves and our fellow man in that circumstance...and not for no reason...but we do have a regular habit of surprising ourselves and each other in the same circumstance.
A more accurate expression of what is being communicated is that a person believes that while science can verify value, it can't verify -this kind- of value. Oh, well, golly, can/can't it?
(November 21, 2017 at 9:03 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: So they are demonstrating the ethics (as they see them) in their environment. Sounds pretty self centered and also sounds like the stealing could be rationalized as self survival.OFC it can be, but rationalizing stealing as survival is not rationalizing it as good or conforming to your ethics. I would also steal to ensure my survival. I call it "foraging"...lol.....but I would not think that the theft was a good way to ensure survival..merely what I had to do.
Quote:Catastrophe was just and example. Surprised I have to explain that.
You don't..just pointing out the other side of janus' coin. We fear the worst from ourselves and our fellow man in that circumstance...and not for no reason...but we do have a regular habit of surprising ourselves and each other in the same circumstance.
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