(June 24, 2022 at 1:16 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(June 24, 2022 at 11:40 am)Ahriman Wrote: Nothing will ever make perfect sense. Better to follow the rules of an omnipotent entity.
You could also follow your parents rules, my rules, or the housecats rules. Maximizing moral virtue is specifically about following moral rules, however.
Do you think it would also be "better" to follow an omnipotent gods rules, rather than whatever hedonistic impulse you have at a given moment?
The trouble is that personal hedonism necessarily fails to maximize moral virtue further than as it applies to the personal hedonist, by the very act of following the rules of hedonism. On a metric that includes even one additional moral agent, it actually minimizes moral virtue.
And I remain unconvinced that hedonism in the sense expressed by Ari (‘What feels good to me is all that matters’) even qualifies as a moral system at all.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson