(February 24, 2013 at 1:45 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Good, who cares? But best? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
-Like you, I suspect that allowing our empathy to drive what we consider to be "good" is tenuous for the purposes of making an absolute determination. This allows for a range of "good" as broad (and potentially contradictory) as the range of human empathy. Personally, though, I'm okay with that, as I'm not an absolutist - nor do I require that any concept of "good" be absolute, nor do I require that moral or emotional descriptions of things like "good" be non-contradictory. I'm okay with working from agreement when agreement is the most pragmatic course of action (even this allows wiggle room doesn't it - who doesn't like a little wiggling?).
Looks like we pretty much agree on all of this, though I have to say I find all that lamentation pretty annoying while I'm raping the wives of the vanquished.
