(May 19, 2017 at 6:33 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 19, 2017 at 5:43 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Sounds pragmatic but not principled. I guess if everyone comes to think female genital mutilation is okay then it will be. Today slavery is wrong but it was okay in the 17th century. And exactly how does one define the collective response? Is 51% sufficient to determine if something is moral?
Your principles hopefully lie in your gut rather than an ancient book. Where would you suggest we get our principles from?
(May 19, 2017 at 5:21 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Our morality appears to be a mix of subconscious drives with an icing of cultural framing on top. [...] But the subconscious part of morality seems rather inflexible, so I think we'd still have issues with killing.
Indeed Neo as with most of his ilk seem less concerned with the nature of moral truth and more about belaying moral worry. And enforcing moral comfort presuppositionaly. That does not seem very objective .
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