RE: Trolley Problem/Consistency in Ethics
January 25, 2018 at 11:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2018 at 11:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 25, 2018 at 9:53 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: IDK about consistency, but I see thought experiments like these (and all of ethical philosophy in general) to be highly informative. As far as practical morality, the value is beyond measure. If anything, it shows people that there is more to ethics than obedience to certain societal mores.Isn't that interesting...because if you were consistent..... perhaps you'd realize that they aren't worth shit, literally, toilet paper is more useful. Aint nobody on earth who didn't already know that.
Quote:Are you familiar with the work of Lawrence Kohlberg? He plotted a system of moral growth whereby people start with simple obedience, then move on to seeing morality in terms of societal conformity, and finally end up realizing that they must become an autonomous moral agent to be truly moral. Exercises like these are good for working that part of the brain which is necessary for high-level moral consideration.I am, by dumb luck, actually. Moral growth is an interesting subject. I'm in the midst of watching it, now, as a parent of many bastard ass children who aren't even close to being human beings yet. They're just brute expressions of their mommy and daddy's ticks. She want's to love errybody, and my first response is always to kill it with fire.
Quote:So long as we have evangelicals pushing an ethics which resembles low-level moral iterations (ie obedience, conformity), it benefits a public discussion to talk about how best to be a fully developed autonomous moral agent.
I agree. Maybe that will stop them from saying stupid shit like "from a purely naturalistic" this or that. OTOH..LOLNO they will always say that.
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