(March 17, 2026 at 8:54 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(March 16, 2026 at 11:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Even that relies upon an individual defining the minimization of suffering as a moral good, which is of necessity a subjective definition.No more so than the definition of a cat or a moon, or any other word really, when you think about it. Why is a cat a cat except that we call it such? We can say a cat has biological markers making it a cat by any name, but so too would suffering.
You and I think of torturing cats as immoral. What makes our thinking regnant, such that it is an objective fact?
