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Depends on your value system, but something that comes to mind is Deontology. You should read about the categorical imperative. To give you a taste, “Act only
by knicholes 10y ago
Depends on your value system, but something that comes to mind is Deontology. You should read about the categorical imperative. To give you a taste, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” – Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals
This, for example, suggests that lying is absolutely immoral, because if lying were universally accepted as good, we would not be able to trust each other.
- jimmyk 10y agoDepends on your value system It seems odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective, doesn't it? we would not be able to trust each other. That sounds like a pretty utilitarian concern to me, rather than a contradiction.
- alasdair_ 10y ago>It seems odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective, doesn't it? Go deep enough and eventually everything is subjective. Even things like fundamental axioms.
- knicholes 10y agoIt does seem odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective... existential crises ensues
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- lerpa 10y agoExplanations. That there exists more than one explanation for a phenomenon, like ethics and moral values, doesn't mean that choosing any of those at random yields a good explanation. It also doesn't mean that there is no valid explanation at all. That's just lazy not-100%-sure-therefore-I-substituite-my-own-reality-ism.