RE: Human Nature
April 28, 2025 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2025 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why would we acknowledge that slavery is bad if there weren't an ounce of good in us? Why would we care if it was bad...for that matter? Why do we have Otherwise Decent People going to great lengths to attempt, and fail...even in their own estimation, to justify such a thing as they themselves were doing? Deciding that it is a necessary moral evil for utilitarian good, for example? I strongly suspect you think I'm saying something that I'm not.
That you and I would largely feel and conclude about the same things with respect to matters of moral import and our human track record. I also think that if we use different metrics we could see exactly the same thing and derive alternate conclusions. My view on this, simply put, is that if we employ a rational and fact based appraisal of moral matters we will find that human condemnation is often spread much further, and laid more heavily on, than the facts of those matters would support. Not just in these types of summaries...but in everyday life, as a habit. Illogical ideals and impractical demands will more often than not skew to failure in a wholly non-representative way.
That you and I would largely feel and conclude about the same things with respect to matters of moral import and our human track record. I also think that if we use different metrics we could see exactly the same thing and derive alternate conclusions. My view on this, simply put, is that if we employ a rational and fact based appraisal of moral matters we will find that human condemnation is often spread much further, and laid more heavily on, than the facts of those matters would support. Not just in these types of summaries...but in everyday life, as a habit. Illogical ideals and impractical demands will more often than not skew to failure in a wholly non-representative way.
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