RE: What would be the harm?
December 1, 2018 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2018 at 11:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 1, 2018 at 11:11 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 1, 2018 at 11:07 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: A goal doesn't need to be universal for there to be goals in the universe, or for those goals to be objective, or for a failure to reach those goals to be objectively assessed.
Goals are by their very nature subjective. Whether something has met the goal may be objective, but that does not make the goal itself objective. You are measuring the wrong thing.
You must mean that consequentialists are measuring the wrong thing...but, ofc, that would be a sloppy claim. Consequentialists could be measuring the success or failure of an act to meet an objective moral standard, or a state of affairs in accordance with the same. I don't personally think that consequentialist ethics are enough, in and of themselves (a point I mentioned earlier)..mostly because they have to have something to measure those consequences by.
So, as examples...some consequentialist schema might be measuring against the success of a society. But is the success of society a relevant moral metric? Maybe, but an evil society might be the most successful, in the end, and measuring the success of that society would not tell uis wether or not that society was morally good no matter how good it established them at perserverence or wealth or what have you. The same can be said of life..and survival.
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