(March 24, 2015 at 4:15 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(March 24, 2015 at 4:08 pm)Chuck Wrote: That's probably because you don't have a clearly thought out concept of what constitute benevolence. Instead you rely on feelings, which leads you to be over-optimistic about the potency of some favored attributes, and fail to account for the necessity of other disliked attributes under relevant circumstances.
A benevolence according to some principle likely already overlooks practical impact of "benevolence".
I would ask instead why is benevolence necessary? Are democracies benevolent? Our laws might be, but democracy in itself is not meant to be benevolent but fair
Why benevolence is necessary depends on what you mean by benevolence.
