RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 6, 2021 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2021 at 12:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 5, 2021 at 4:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 5, 2021 at 4:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Put another and far simpler way - If murder is wrong - is it less wrong or not wrong if we hopped over to world b for some murder tourism?
Yes, if murder is a moral imperative in world b (I’m assuming the ‘murder’ has the same definition in both worlds).
No, if murder is equally morally wrong in both worlds (same caveat).
Boru
I can see a possible world where murder is a moral imperative for the creatures within it. I don't even know that we have to go to our imaginary world to make that one stick. For me, though, the answer would be no in both cases. I think that our moral responsibilities must follow us wherever we are if they objectively refer to us. I see it as a change of venue, I suppose.
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