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If you refuse to engage with a challenging concept and instead talk about something else entirely, you make things easier. Go figure. Strategy helps us decide
by aionionio 3y ago
If you refuse to engage with a challenging concept and instead talk about something else entirely, you make things easier. Go figure.
Strategy helps us decide which actions will help us reach a goal. It does not tell us what that goal should be. It has practically nothing to do with morality. Human societies adopt different means but they also work towards different ends.
- codexb 3y agoThe only goal is self-preservation. It's universal. All individual "moral" decisions are based on this one goal.
- aionionio 3y agoThis is trivially debunked. People regularly sacrifice themselves because they think it is right. You could say soldiers fight to protect their kin, but people sacrifice even out of devotion to ideas like truth and honor. There are people who refuse to kill animals, even ones as distantly related to us as octopuses, because they think it's wrong. There are people who vow celibacy out of religious obligation, like the Shakers who abstained themselves out of existence. These things cannot be easily explained in your framework. It can't be disputed that morality is partly instinctive. There are those who argue persuasively that morality is largely self-deception, with our alleged values being just a way of rationalizing our instincts. I think you have something of a point. Still, your simplistic version is just plain wrong.
- zilchnotta 3y agoIt's not a challenging concept, it's a mistaken distinction. Using those specific words, just confuses the issue with ancient religious dogma.
- aionionio 3y ago[dead]