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The question "What if there were a machine to make everyone moral?" implicitly assumed it would make people moral, whatever that is, as a premise, rather than m
by xenophanes 17y ago
The question "What if there were a machine to make everyone moral?" implicitly assumed it would make people moral, whatever that is, as a premise, rather than moral according to someone's judgment. This reading may be debatable, but I think that's how he took it.
- hugh3 17y agoI suppose behaving morally is two problems, then: a) Deciding what is moral, and b) Doing it even if you don't want to. A machine which helped you do (b) would be useful even if it couldn't do (a).