RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 8, 2021 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2021 at 12:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's how you think it should work, not how it does work, in those systems. There are bound to be tons of differences in a moral situation that resolve to subjective differences. Realist thinking about abortions or environmental activism or any other thing - moral responsibility in general- don't rule these things out or even ignore them.
Moral realists very often are and moral realism allows for descriptive subjectivity and descriptive relativity. Those things are, themselves, facts - and facts are what realism concerns itself with.
Another fun q to play with - would we expect a species like us in every way except one - that they reproduce asexually, to see immorality in homosexual attraction or acts between human beings - or between acts of intimacy for pleasure between themselves? In the same vein, we might feel that we have responsibilities towards children because there would be no humans left alive to wonder if we didn't believe as much. Both of these, in moral philosophers terms, would be relativistic assertions. They don't pertain to an individual agent and they don't map to moral truth (if there is any) - they do map to species and societies.
Moral realists very often are and moral realism allows for descriptive subjectivity and descriptive relativity. Those things are, themselves, facts - and facts are what realism concerns itself with.
Another fun q to play with - would we expect a species like us in every way except one - that they reproduce asexually, to see immorality in homosexual attraction or acts between human beings - or between acts of intimacy for pleasure between themselves? In the same vein, we might feel that we have responsibilities towards children because there would be no humans left alive to wonder if we didn't believe as much. Both of these, in moral philosophers terms, would be relativistic assertions. They don't pertain to an individual agent and they don't map to moral truth (if there is any) - they do map to species and societies.
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