RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 25, 2024 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2024 at 3:32 pm by Lucian.)
(July 25, 2024 at 3:25 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Harm seems to reduce to instrumental utility, in which case, why isn't instrumental utility a measure of moral right and wrong. If it's not, it's hard to see what harm offers that utility doesn't.
Hey Angrboda. Sorry, being a dumb-dumb, what is instrumental utility. Not a concept I have come across before so figured I would ask what you mean rather than look it up and maybe misunderstand you
Also, general comment - why do we keep focussing on immorality in the definitions… why no focus on what being morally good is, or is it just the absence of the bad? in many instances there is no harm to minimise when we do acts of good. Or am I misunderstanding