RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
June 2, 2022 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2022 at 3:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As before, what we call those things may not be a complicated version of x. It may be that below some level of complexity there is no x.
That below that level there is y.
That below that level ir outside of those circumstances or without that crucial attribute…no matter how complex…it’s y, and not x.
Moral agency isn’t a hard place to draw that line in principle. We draw it in practice. There’s a difference between thing that do bad z in ignorance or without volition, and things that do. Knowledge….and volition.
Plants may not know shit. Doesn’t prevent them from behaving intelligently, but it dies prevent them from begaving as moral agents.
That below that level there is y.
That below that level ir outside of those circumstances or without that crucial attribute…no matter how complex…it’s y, and not x.
Moral agency isn’t a hard place to draw that line in principle. We draw it in practice. There’s a difference between thing that do bad z in ignorance or without volition, and things that do. Knowledge….and volition.
Plants may not know shit. Doesn’t prevent them from behaving intelligently, but it dies prevent them from begaving as moral agents.
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