RE: The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil
September 25, 2020 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2020 at 3:55 pm by Anomalocaris.)
There is not such thing, except in crass religious Inspired fantasy, as benefit that doesn’t bring some form of harm To some one somewhere. Seldom Is any thing as harm that doesn’t bring some form of benefit to someone somewhere.
So To me, there is no benefit except in terms of the total relative harm, there is no harm except in terms of total relative benefit To put it another way, there is no such thing as a benefit that is not merely a lessening of evil by the person’s own weighing of each consequence, and There is no such thing as evil that is not just a lessening of benefit.
Every choice is a choice between lesser evil and greater evil, you can phase it as between good and evil, or greater good and lesser good. It is the same thing.
Every choice is also a choice between the good and the supreme good, and you can phrase it as evil and good, or more evil and less evil. It is still the same thing.
How you decide, depends not on the choices, but how the choices are phrased in infantile and polemic terminology.
So To me, there is no benefit except in terms of the total relative harm, there is no harm except in terms of total relative benefit To put it another way, there is no such thing as a benefit that is not merely a lessening of evil by the person’s own weighing of each consequence, and There is no such thing as evil that is not just a lessening of benefit.
Every choice is a choice between lesser evil and greater evil, you can phase it as between good and evil, or greater good and lesser good. It is the same thing.
Every choice is also a choice between the good and the supreme good, and you can phrase it as evil and good, or more evil and less evil. It is still the same thing.
How you decide, depends not on the choices, but how the choices are phrased in infantile and polemic terminology.
