Keith Adams, if you’re too busy to read the post and understand it, don’t clog the comments.
Obert wins this one on points, but I’m still not convinced. Consider:
1) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, 2 + 3 = 5 would still hold.
2) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, murder would still be wrong.
While 1 is problematic in its own way, 2 just seems incoherent to me. Morality is generated by the actions of self-aware beings, and as such I can only ever think of it as a fluid abstract. Morality is as people do, nothing more. PK’s aliens can conceivably hold theft to be perfectly moral.
One says ‘murder is wrong’. I say ‘show me the evidence’.
Keith Adams, if you’re too busy to read the post and understand it, don’t clog the comments.
Obert wins this one on points, but I’m still not convinced. Consider:
1) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, 2 + 3 = 5 would still hold. 2) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, murder would still be wrong.
While 1 is problematic in its own way, 2 just seems incoherent to me. Morality is generated by the actions of self-aware beings, and as such I can only ever think of it as a fluid abstract. Morality is as people do, nothing more. PK’s aliens can conceivably hold theft to be perfectly moral.
One says ‘murder is wrong’. I say ‘show me the evidence’.