(April 4, 2019 at 4:23 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:(April 4, 2019 at 4:22 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Killing our enemies because we enjoy torturing mutilating people to death isn’t good.You may see it that way, but we've already determined that while a given act with moral import or content might also possess some aesthetic quality it;s also possible that it doesnt.
Killing our enemies to preserve human life, the peace and harmony of the larger society, is good. Preserving human life is a beautiful thing, the harmony and peace of society is beautiful thing as well.
That they are distinct from each other, variable, and so..coincidental. Most of the preserving society and harmony and all that jazz is done in a cubicle by completely bored people who see an endless litany of spreadsheets that aren;t particularly beautiful or ugly. You get the odd nutball with a fetish, ofc.
I'm not particularly interested in killing the enemy for either of those reasons...and it's always ugly to me regardless of why it's done.
-and we're still left wondering what, if any of it, has to do with gods.
Your argument is faulty it’s akin to conflating the act of creating a work of art, with using a paintbrush. It’s like saying paintings aren’t about aesthetics, because using a paintbrush isn’t pretty.
Killing your enemies is a means to a moral end, it’s not moral in and of itself. It’s tool or a means to an end, but not the moral end in itself.
Why are we killing our enemies? For what sake or purpose? What end are we serving?
