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You should cheer up. Rational people (like gp) only care about what's around them. Why should he waste money on solar instead of sending it to charity, etc?
by escherize 11y ago
You should cheer up. Rational people (like gp) only care about what's around them. Why should he waste money on solar instead of sending it to charity, etc?
- Brakenshire 11y agoThe Rational Man is a economic construct which is dubious as an abstract concept for building economic models, and irrelevant as a justification for individual behaviour. If the limit of morality is the law and the market, we might all just as well give up now.
- oldmanjay 11y agoApologies for this comment. I dashed off about 30% of my thoughts (the shittiest 30%) and this isn't really what I was trying to express. I'll leave it here to remind myself to think more. ----- If the most convincing case you can make for your morals is "you should because I say so" then you can't be too surprised when it's not 100% convincing to people.
- Brakenshire 11y ago> If the most convincing case you can make for your morals is "you should because I say so" then you can't be too surprised when it's not 100% convincing to people. Yeah, there are all sorts of questions you can discuss about how your values inform the way you spend money above and beyond what's necessary, whether it's about luxury, convenience, status, or how you would want to spend charitable money. What annoyed me was the raising up of an observation ('people don't care about anything beyond their surroundings') into something which is glibly justified because it is Rational. I would say that's a "you should because I say so", or at best a "you should because it is" argument for morality. Edit: Ah, I see your edit, consider the above part of the fossilized argument then!
- hrnnnnnn 11y agoRelevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2095 http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2095