RE: Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?
September 28, 2018 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2018 at 11:09 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(September 28, 2018 at 10:57 am)Khemikal Wrote: A person can make any argument..but it wont make them good arguments.
That's my point though. If we only go by science, letting it make the decisions for us, then we won't end up with good decisions because science is objective, not subjective. We need to make the decisions and then use the science to give us the options.
(September 28, 2018 at 10:57 am)Khemikal Wrote: Imagine yourself holding the button. If you press it, no one will ever cause more suffering than you have..because there won't be anyone left to suffer. The contended selling point of the idea demonstrates exactly -why- it's a bad decision by the metric of suffering in a suffering reducing moral schema. You'll have not only done the opposite of what you intend..you'll have done it to a greater extent than will ever be possible again.
My husband often jokes that this is me ... (Davros that is, not the doctor)