RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 13, 2022 at 1:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2022 at 1:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 11, 2022 at 9:44 am)bennyboy Wrote: Without God, then a sense of goodness must be an instinct-- otherwise we'd have no concept of it at all.Doesn't follow with or without a god, but it is nice to get the assist from natural compulsions...when natural compulsions aren't the thing telling you to curstomp the neighbors kid, ofc.
Therefore, moral values are those which lead to circumstances which feel good.
Quote:I feel guilty when I harm others, and good when I help them, so I consider helping people moral, and hurting them immoral. I feel good when my wife and children are happy and healthy, and bad when they are unhappy or unhealthy-- so things which will lead to their happiness and health are good.Sounds healthy as shit. Imagine if you felt bad when your wife and children were happy. Would that make your wife and child being happy.....bad? Similarly, if some other parent passed judgement on you for doing some bad thing you were calling good, on account of it making you feel good, is this where the system of classification breaks down?
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