RE: The Moral Realism Master Thread.
December 9, 2017 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2017 at 7:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 9, 2017 at 6:56 pm)wallym Wrote: So you can say morality is helping people. Which is fine. And the definition can exist in that scope. You can measure actions and their effects on whether they increase other people's happiness, or whatever measurement you're looking for.
But you can't say it's better to be moral than immoral in the grander sense. Because that goes back to assigning values to states of being, and that's decidedly unscientific.
Consider this question, ask yourself whether it's coherent;
Is a platypus a platypus in any "grander sense"?
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