The fear of losing a moral compass is itself a moral compass
Doesn’t this sound like a belief in belief?
I don’t want God to be my moral compass, because I don’t believe in it and I don’t want my good behaviour (and others’ behaviour, too) to be built upon a sand castle. But I don’t like this foundation of morality, too: it sounds absolute, which makes it incomparable with others’. Also, what about sociopaths who don’t have this moral commanding hard wired in their brain? Should them be allowed to kill?
I prefer to give value to human life, *just because I acknowledge that it has a great potentiality*, and then maximize the utility function. This kind of argument for morality is the safest (at least, among intelligent people: intelligent sociopaths would understand it, dumb ones would not)
Doesn’t this sound like a belief in belief?
I don’t want God to be my moral compass, because I don’t believe in it and I don’t want my good behaviour (and others’ behaviour, too) to be built upon a sand castle. But I don’t like this foundation of morality, too: it sounds absolute, which makes it incomparable with others’. Also, what about sociopaths who don’t have this moral commanding hard wired in their brain? Should them be allowed to kill?
I prefer to give value to human life, *just because I acknowledge that it has a great potentiality*, and then maximize the utility function. This kind of argument for morality is the safest (at least, among intelligent people: intelligent sociopaths would understand it, dumb ones would not)