(September 7, 2025 at 10:15 am)Paleophyte Wrote: One of the things that we rarely see is a justification for viewing ethics as anything more than the necessary behaviors of members of a tribe of apes with delusions of sentience. Sure, Don't-Be-A-Dick ethics is probably a bit too simple, but it's pretty much where it's at. Aside from keeping both philosophers and theologians occupied so that they don't endanger the public by studying anything with real-world applications, long-winded metaethical arguments never seem to be able to demonstrate a need for their inevitably bendy thinking.
Yeah, partially why I said earlier that I am not looking to particularly starting following any system. Just an intellectual exercise that I am keen to delve into
That said, I do think that some metaethics can have positive practical outputs, but trying to not get stuck into that here for once
