@Angrboda
Have a nice bus ride.
I would add that harm is Nudger's concept. I prefer happiness/pleasure/pain/suffering to make the point. These (hedonistic) concepts are not all there is to morality (at least that's what I think). But they are tangible real things... observable by science... that (in our direct experience) come with the qualities "bad" or "good" baked right into them. Happiness is good. Suffering is bad. Wouldn't you agree? It's very tangible.
So, with moral skeptics I argue for hedonism. With hedonists, I argue that hedonism is an incomplete theory. But (incomplete as it is) for me, happiness and suffering MUST factor in to a moral theory somehow.
Have a nice bus ride.
I would add that harm is Nudger's concept. I prefer happiness/pleasure/pain/suffering to make the point. These (hedonistic) concepts are not all there is to morality (at least that's what I think). But they are tangible real things... observable by science... that (in our direct experience) come with the qualities "bad" or "good" baked right into them. Happiness is good. Suffering is bad. Wouldn't you agree? It's very tangible.
So, with moral skeptics I argue for hedonism. With hedonists, I argue that hedonism is an incomplete theory. But (incomplete as it is) for me, happiness and suffering MUST factor in to a moral theory somehow.
