RE: Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position
March 9, 2020 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2020 at 3:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The batshit arguments and condescension are just minor side effects of a person discounting shared attributes of humanity on account of the other person not believing in pixies, or the right pixies. The full effect of that beyond the boards is a great deal worse.
Anywho, it's probably not accurate to state that empathy defines right and wrong. Empathy is recognition. Empathy tells us that we're looking at something meaningful to us, a situation with moral import, but it doesn't tell us why that situation has moral import to recognize. Approached from another angle, failures of empathy - the lack of empathy in an individual will not certify that the thing apprehended is not wrong. It suggests, instead, that human moral agency is fallible, which probably doesn't surprise anyone.
Empathy as the right or wrong-making property is actually the same moral assertion as god defining right and wrong. Natural subjectivism as opposed to supernatural subjectivism.
Anywho, it's probably not accurate to state that empathy defines right and wrong. Empathy is recognition. Empathy tells us that we're looking at something meaningful to us, a situation with moral import, but it doesn't tell us why that situation has moral import to recognize. Approached from another angle, failures of empathy - the lack of empathy in an individual will not certify that the thing apprehended is not wrong. It suggests, instead, that human moral agency is fallible, which probably doesn't surprise anyone.
Empathy as the right or wrong-making property is actually the same moral assertion as god defining right and wrong. Natural subjectivism as opposed to supernatural subjectivism.
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