Eli: I am not trying to do what’s human. I am not even trying to do what is reflectively coherent for me. I am trying to do what’s right.
This sounds a bit like:
“I am NOT drinking liquid H2O, I am drinking water, goddamit!”
Just as water is, as a matter of fact, H2O, your notion of right is (at least, from what you’ve told me it seems to be) something like “that which humans would do if they were reflectively coherent”.
Also, Echoing Jadagul: as most people use the words, you’re a moral relativist
Saying that “right = human” is to deny the idea of moral progress. If what the human thing to do can change over time, and what is right doesn’t change, then they can’t be the same thing.
Slavery was once very human. I think many of us (though not the relativists) would reject the claim that because it was human, it was also right. It was always wrong, regardless of how common.
Eli: I am not trying to do what’s human. I am not even trying to do what is reflectively coherent for me. I am trying to do what’s right.
This sounds a bit like:
“I am NOT drinking liquid H2O, I am drinking water, goddamit!”
Just as water is, as a matter of fact, H2O, your notion of right is (at least, from what you’ve told me it seems to be) something like “that which humans would do if they were reflectively coherent”.
Also, Echoing Jadagul: as most people use the words, you’re a moral relativist
Saying that “right = human” is to deny the idea of moral progress. If what the human thing to do can change over time, and what is right doesn’t change, then they can’t be the same thing.
Slavery was once very human. I think many of us (though not the relativists) would reject the claim that because it was human, it was also right. It was always wrong, regardless of how common.