(February 26, 2013 at 11:56 am)genkaus Wrote:(February 26, 2013 at 10:55 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: If we are talking morality then good would be the attitudes and actions that a well adjusted person would consider reasonable.
By well adjusted I mean having a strong sense of empathy and no mental disorders that would alter their opinions/actions.
Why is a strong sense of empathy that is the qualification and not a strong sense of rationality?
Because sometimes the rational thing is not the emapthic thing.
The US wanted to settle the interior that was occupied by the Native Americans and so set about trying to remove them.
This was rational but not moral.
Empathy is better on the whole but empathy tempered with rationality would be better.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
