RE: Being vs. Believing
May 21, 2015 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 10:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No, even if all of that were true..I don't think that it would be, for practical morality. Which, admittedly, is all I can muster up two shits for.
Disagreements might arise (and they do) - but if morality were "else" people would still have disagreements about what that "else" was, eh? Seems that we would (and currently do) have ways to approach that situation regardless of what morality -is-.
OTOH, if we can adjust those standards..that would be a great diplomatic trick, wouldn't it? I will stress, again, that many of our conflicts seem to arise precisely because we do -not- seem to have this ability...but if we did........then I wouldn't immediately default to a uniformly negative summary.
Disagreements might arise (and they do) - but if morality were "else" people would still have disagreements about what that "else" was, eh? Seems that we would (and currently do) have ways to approach that situation regardless of what morality -is-.
OTOH, if we can adjust those standards..that would be a great diplomatic trick, wouldn't it? I will stress, again, that many of our conflicts seem to arise precisely because we do -not- seem to have this ability...but if we did........then I wouldn't immediately default to a uniformly negative summary.
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