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No my points don't need work. You're just making too many assumptions. First off let's get it out of the way your previous post was about your own moral framew
by leafboi 6y ago
No my points don't need work. You're just making too many assumptions.
First off let's get it out of the way your previous post was about your own moral framework and what you would do when encountering a moral paradox and how you would resolve it. Let's make things simple and let me say that I 100% agree with your own moral framework and what you will do. Basically you were presenting a topic to me that completely agree with. So what's the point? What are you trying to say. It seems there is no point.
Let me cut through all your tangential BS and help you get straight to the point. You don't agree there are two moral modules in your mind. You don't make it clear but you use the words "People function just fine without much thought because there is no dichotomy." As evidence.
First off those moral paradoxes are 1 in a billion cases. People rarely encounter situations that require them to decipher such dilemmas. The moral module of the brain has evolved for dealing with normal and daily situations not obscure hypothetical issues. The paradox is drawn up to show you this imperfection, to illustrate how the module does not provide satisfactory emotions to resolve certain moral situations.
Second off just because you encounter a moral paradox doesn't mean your brain turns to scrambled eggs, you still have the ability to resolve a conflict in your mind. We do it quite often and we even have a word to describe the emotion we feel that's related to making a costly decision: "guilt."
Thirdly the brain is just a series of modules interplaying with each other. YOu deal with moral conflicts and many other conflicts within your mind every single day and you resolve these conflicts with little thought.
It's simple. Have you ever felt conflicted about anything? Have you felt the need to eat a lot of bacon or some other food but you know it's going to be unhealthy? That's conflict, that's a dichotomy..
Have you felt a strong desire or some object that you can't afford so you just steal it? Perhaps a child wants candy that his parents won't let him buy so he steals it despite being aware it's wrong. That is moral conflict that is moral dichotomy.
Do you feel that you need to exercise to stay healthy and strong but also feel the need to be lazy? Have you both loved and hated a beautiful woman/man?
You need to realize that conflicting dichotomies in our brain is so common that it's obvious. Everyone experiences it to some degree and dare I say on a weekly or even daily basis. You're making this absurd claim that there is no moral dichotomy because people function fine so there must be no dichotomy.
The truth is opposite. People function just fine Despite all kinds of conflicts and dichotomies bombarding their heads. All these temptations and conflicting desires and thoughts that we encounter easily resolve into a singular decision.
>There are conflicting convictions to orthogonal moral precepts, but there is no doubt they are all flexible with reasoning (even if subconscious) rather than a strict "morality vs reason, which to choose?!"
What are you saying here? Are you saying that there are conflicting convictions orthogonal to moral precepts? Isn't that what I'm saying? I never said people have problems picking between morality and reasoning. It's easily done and people (like yourself) even have trouble figuring out which part of their mind is logical and which part is moral (they confuse the two modules thinking it's the same thing.)
The fact of the matter is, along with what you feel internally there is physical evidence that morality is seperate from reasoning. All psychopaths lack morality and additionally exhibit brain damage in the same area of their brain while maintaining high reasoning faculties. This is compelling evidence despite what you say.
Literally I have physical evidence from brain damage and I have evidence that you can gather from deciphering your own moral emotions.. It's pretty evidence that morality is instinctual and separate from reasoning.
>Good luck with whatever.
Good luck understanding me. I don't think you're capable of grasping a single word I said.