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I would beg to differ. One person's good is another person's evil. It would appear you are falsely equivocating benefit (which is indeed, subjective) with goo
by nateb2022 4y ago
I would beg to differ.
One person's good is another person's evil.
It would appear you are falsely equivocating benefit (which is indeed, subjective) with good; it therefore follows that you also equivocate injury with evil.
While indeed, something beneficial is often considered "good," this does not imply that all good consists in benefit, or that all benefit is inherently good. It would be evil, for instance, for one to benefit by exploiting another. Contrariwise, their mutual co-operation would be good and result in their mutual benefit.
The distribution[0] of your major and minor terms is of great importance when reasoning upon matters as grave as a system of objective morality. One may benefit from good or evil actions. To equivocate between good and benefit in toto is to possess a fundamentally mistaken idea of the principles of objective morality. In so doing, you do not reject objective morality, but rather your misunderstanding thereof.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_proposition#Distributivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_proposition#Distri...
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoThank you, that was illuminating. I was not in fact saying that good must always involve benefit and evil injury. It is obvious that acts which some will categorise as evil can provide benefit, and vice versa. I was merely saying that there is no objective definition of good and evil independent of human judgement and people do differ in how they ascribe those labels.