RE: Deconversion and some doubts
August 8, 2019 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2019 at 8:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Are you obligated to love my children, or me? Do we even have to love our own children in order to be “good parents”...and what, exactly, does that entail?
It’s tempting to imagine that relational ethics express some fundamental realist unit of moral currency, but they don’t. They’re a description of subjective state when contemplating the affection we have for our kids. To be blunt, basing a moral system off of love can be nothing other-than subjectivist.
This isn’t to say that they’re not a useful set of positive obligations, ofc. A species with children who need substantial care wouldn’t survive without some biological compulsion towards their offspring.
It’s tempting to imagine that relational ethics express some fundamental realist unit of moral currency, but they don’t. They’re a description of subjective state when contemplating the affection we have for our kids. To be blunt, basing a moral system off of love can be nothing other-than subjectivist.
This isn’t to say that they’re not a useful set of positive obligations, ofc. A species with children who need substantial care wouldn’t survive without some biological compulsion towards their offspring.
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