RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 26, 2017 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2017 at 2:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 26, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Astonished Wrote: You can't fucking say that any act is always wrong 100% of the time! What the fuck?!
An objective morality -doesn't- say that, and neither did I, so? Here, lets try another example.
Let;s say that the person who gets run over was an assualt rifle wiedling madman spraying bullets into the crowd, and a person intentionally ran them over.
Is that bad, neutral, good? What objective facts of this moral matter are at play when we give him a Heroes Parade?
Fun aside - the simplicity of an objective moral framework is super useful for an evolved moral agent. Don;t want to have to spend too much time agonizing over the moral stuff..what with the moral stuff being so intimately connected with your survival.
Quick, mostly right decisions will suffice, and are probably preferred (selectively, I mean) to a sort of moral malaise in our every act.
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