RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 7, 2024 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2024 at 11:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think it's very rarely as advantageous as we imagine to act poorly. I want to point out it doesn't matter whether there's an objecting standard to act on for any of this. We say, for example, that outside of moral concerns why not steal - wouldn't that be more advantageous than being moral? We're forgetting the possibility of getting shot, the hand choppers, the lengthy prison sentences, and the social shunning
"But what if I could get away with it? -You wont. At least not as a lifestyle decision, lol.
At the bottom of the barrel, though, I personally think that realists and antirealists have all the same reasons to accept utilitarian ethics - in the realists case, even if those utilitarian ethics rub against their moral sense.
"But what if I could get away with it? -You wont. At least not as a lifestyle decision, lol.
At the bottom of the barrel, though, I personally think that realists and antirealists have all the same reasons to accept utilitarian ethics - in the realists case, even if those utilitarian ethics rub against their moral sense.
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