Yeah. I don’t think this actually makes ethics harder to study, but I wonder if he’s getting at...
Unlike in experimental or applied science, in ethics you can’t ever build a simple ethical scenario, because you can’t isolate any part of the world from the judgement or interventionist drives of every single person’s value systems. Values, inherently, project themselves out onto the world, nothing really keeps them localized in their concerns. If someone runs a brutal and unnecessary medical experiment on prisoners in an underground lab, it doesn’t matter how many layers of concrete or faraday shielding separate me from it, I still care about that, a bunch of other people care in different ways. You can’t isolate anything. The EV considers everything.
Yeah. I don’t think this actually makes ethics harder to study, but I wonder if he’s getting at...
Unlike in experimental or applied science, in ethics you can’t ever build a simple ethical scenario, because you can’t isolate any part of the world from the judgement or interventionist drives of every single person’s value systems. Values, inherently, project themselves out onto the world, nothing really keeps them localized in their concerns.
If someone runs a brutal and unnecessary medical experiment on prisoners in an underground lab, it doesn’t matter how many layers of concrete or faraday shielding separate me from it, I still care about that, a bunch of other people care in different ways. You can’t isolate anything. The EV considers everything.