(August 13, 2019 at 5:34 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: A fun non naturalist take on that question, Camus, goes like so.
I know that I shouldn’t strip a screw, but is it wrong?
GE Moore, open question.
Yeah, I was reading up on that a while ago.
No matter what you say, the argument goes that you can always ask "but is it wrong"?
Example: The Holocaust caused unnecessary suffering, but is it wrong?
Well yeah. If we define right/wrong in terms of harm and suffering, which is very reasonable, it is wrong.
Questions like this remind me of questions like the following:
Other people behave very similar to how I do, but do they really have a mind?
I can interact with the objects around, but do I really interact with them as they are?
I can think, and do all sorts of things, but am I really me?
If you're persistent, you have some agenda, you can forever ask the question "but is this really really true"?