RE: Atheism and Ethics
June 10, 2024 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2024 at 12:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not for long..... Certainly works quicker than cancer.
We could use less strained examples. What do we do when we find ourselves stranded with only so much food. Eat it ourselves and fuck the kiddos? Give it to the young, knowing that means we'll die..and roll the dice on the issue of whether they, then...alone and without us, succeed? Or do we find a creative way to off ourselves in each others arms after throwing a big fucking party and using all our supplies?
In a perfect world we would pick none of the above, but we don't live in that world and neither do any of our moral systems. I think, as a moral objectivist...that the latter thing would be a tragedy...but I have no moral condemnation for it or people who choose to face their circumstances in such a way. In fact, I'd worry that my trying and failing at the other two prevented me from going that route if all roads lead to the grim reaper. Not that this would stop me from trying..and..probably..continuing to try long after I had internalized the fact that it was all hopeless.
We could use less strained examples. What do we do when we find ourselves stranded with only so much food. Eat it ourselves and fuck the kiddos? Give it to the young, knowing that means we'll die..and roll the dice on the issue of whether they, then...alone and without us, succeed? Or do we find a creative way to off ourselves in each others arms after throwing a big fucking party and using all our supplies?
In a perfect world we would pick none of the above, but we don't live in that world and neither do any of our moral systems. I think, as a moral objectivist...that the latter thing would be a tragedy...but I have no moral condemnation for it or people who choose to face their circumstances in such a way. In fact, I'd worry that my trying and failing at the other two prevented me from going that route if all roads lead to the grim reaper. Not that this would stop me from trying..and..probably..continuing to try long after I had internalized the fact that it was all hopeless.
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