RE: “Normative” ethical theories
September 21, 2025 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2025 at 4:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Whose morality do you think we should be promoting. Which one would actually give you the most good feels? What if incan morality was actually the one which gave you the most good feels?
Obviously, as a person who doesn't believe that this is what morality is about, that wouldn't work for me even if it did appeal to me. I'm capable of believing that the right morality and the morality that best appeals to me (you, god, the housecat) are not the same thing. You say there's nothing wrong with fiction and then describe what can be wrong with fiction. I think jim should keep his hands to himself, no matter what jim thinks, no matter what the incans thought, no matter what viracocha thought - no matter what I think. Just for the record, absolutely clocking some poor sob comes to my mind very often. Trouble is, I know better.
All that potential, and nowhere to put it. Where's a good warlord when you need one, eh? Ends and means, ends and means.
Obviously, as a person who doesn't believe that this is what morality is about, that wouldn't work for me even if it did appeal to me. I'm capable of believing that the right morality and the morality that best appeals to me (you, god, the housecat) are not the same thing. You say there's nothing wrong with fiction and then describe what can be wrong with fiction. I think jim should keep his hands to himself, no matter what jim thinks, no matter what the incans thought, no matter what viracocha thought - no matter what I think. Just for the record, absolutely clocking some poor sob comes to my mind very often. Trouble is, I know better.
All that potential, and nowhere to put it. Where's a good warlord when you need one, eh? Ends and means, ends and means.
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