RE: Being vs. Believing
May 21, 2015 at 9:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 9:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:If morality is about believing that we are good, and whether we believe we are good depends on a 'good' which is set internally, then we have a situation in which any way of being could come to be seen as good (ala Charles Manson or David Koresh).Agreed....but I don't see the problem here..?
Quote:If their goal is simply believing that they are good, and good is an internal variable, then they can meet that goal by adjusting the internal variable.Well, without going over the same ground as my last post about how those variables may be set....does it seem to you, like we are proficient at adjusting those variables? I don't think that we are, and as such I doubt that a person could feel good, or believe they are good (or know that they are good)...simply by adjusting the internal variable - if that can actually be accomplished in the first place. Here again...I don't see the problem?
Is there some requirement or reason to impose a category of "truly good" on the universe at large? I'm satisfied with "better than", myself.
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