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Ethics are more universal, if anything - don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t play anything by Creed or Kenny G over loudspeakers, that kind of thing. Things everyone
by vr46 3y ago
Ethics are more universal, if anything - don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t play anything by Creed or Kenny G over loudspeakers, that kind of thing. Things everyone can get behind.
Morality tends to be an implementation of ethics, like respecting the dead by leaving them to be eaten by vultures, or burying them instead.
- eqvinox 3y ago>> Ethics are a personal construct > Ethics are more universal Both of these statements will have philosophers up in arms ;D Whether morals (and transitively ethics) are universal or context dependent is an unanswered (and possibly undecidable) problem in philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism
- vr46 3y agoAgreed and I was well-aware when commenting, hence the flippancy! I guess I’m from the Simon Blackburn school where relativism is a threat to ethics…