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Yeah, ethics is subjective and it's fascinating that many smart people don't realize this. Ultimately it always boils down to "I feel this is right". Of course
by RivieraKid 6y ago
Yeah, ethics is subjective and it's fascinating that many smart people don't realize this. Ultimately it always boils down to "I feel this is right".
Of course, you can have objective claims such as "if all people followed this principle, it would have this outcome".
- animationwill 6y agoThere is a tension between relative/subjective ethics and absolute/objective ethics. Philosophers seek to discover the absolute, but they cannot shake the human condition
- coldtea 6y ago>Of course, you can have objective claims such as "if all people followed this principle, it would have this outcome". Good luck proving the outcome for anything less than very trivial cases...
- RivieraKid 6y agoWell obviously you can't prove the outcome of making a change in a complex physical system with many biological components. We can barely model a protein.