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This is a hilarious study that lends some support to something I've often found frustrating in the moral-philosophy community. People spend so much time nitpick
by whack 5y ago
This is a hilarious study that lends some support to something I've often found frustrating in the moral-philosophy community. People spend so much time nitpicking at moral theories, that they often don't advocate for a theory that they themselves actually believe in. In fact, an alarming number of moral philosophers don't even believe in objective morality, even when it comes to extreme behaviors such as murder.
Ask an average person about how they make moral decisions, and you'll get a jumble of inconsistent beliefs centered around appeal-to-authority and gut feelings. Ask a moral philosopher about how they make moral decisions, and you'll hear 5 different interpretations from 5 different moral theories, and no advocacy for which one is correct. Hardly surprising then that they feel lost and nihilistic in their own day-to-day lives.
- errantmind 5y ago> ..an alarming number of moral philosophers don't even believe in objective morality, even when it comes to extreme behaviors such as murder There is a lot more to ethics than objective morality. There are plenty of approaches to morality that do not universalize values. Don't let me get in the way of your grand generalizations though.
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