(July 29, 2019 at 1:36 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(July 29, 2019 at 1:34 pm)Shell B Wrote: Then what is it that you think morality is? Do you think it's merely rules for the betterment of society and humans? Then, that's not morals. That's just laws.
Individual morality might be different, but imposing individual morality on others is problematic. Societal morality is just a cover for good laws.
(July 29, 2019 at 1:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: Oh, but people are more important than cats, as are leather couches.
O h, they are. Morality is a thing of people, if aspects of societal morality don't implicitly make people more important than other objects of morality, then that aspect of morality will gradually go away after a while when people take stock of their interests.
Of course we're not more important. We just feel more important. In the grand scheme of all that is, you are probably devastatingly unimportant. It's okay. Everyone is, even the animals in our care. Still, we've made a deal that we'd establish societies and principles and we have to weed out the problems in them and correct them as a result.
