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Ethics/morals as a strategy to achieve your values, sure. The plan is the uninteresting part - people are interested in the values.
by markhahn 3y ago
Ethics/morals as a strategy to achieve your values, sure. The plan is the uninteresting part - people are interested in the values.
- ta8645 2y agoYes, i've been trying to dig into this. People's values are basically a strategy; they hold these values, as a strategy developed by evolution. Evolution has found that instilling these values is a good strategy to sustain the continuity of life. So, in my terminology, "values" are simply a meta strategy, that inform the development of more specific and functional strategies. The reason I am trying to avoid the language of ethics/morals and values, is that they depend on an appeal to authority. Or at the very least, they take on the air of such authority. They're often presented as beyond debatable, somehow God sanctioned and any opposition to them is "evil". What I would like to argue for, is that all morals/ethics/values are just strategies employed by a group of people. None of them are anointed by a higher power. Of course, we can still argue about relative effectiveness of such strategies, and why they're employed.