> There is no such thing as an ethical potential energy Yes there is, I just made it up on the spot and defined it! If you mean that it is not a commonly discu

> There is no such thing as an ethical potential energy Yes there is, I just made it up on the spot and defined it! If you mean that it is not a commonly discussed philosophical term then yes, you'd be correct. > It’s not even a useful thought experiment Now that's a discussion to bad had that you gave no evidence for its lack of use, while I used it to describe tools that humans use and how an "ethical potential energy" calculation can correlate to the practical effects of a tool, and perhaps how we should view/regulate/restrict said items in the context of humans. You could easily derive firearm laws from such a base if you chose to do so, for example. If that derivation is valid then depends on if the concept has the proper grounding in relation to ethics, which is again a discussion to be had.