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> Also, if you were right that morality exists but is not computable, why would that change anything? because principles as the basis of morality then go away.
by MarkPNeyer 11y ago
> Also, if you were right that morality exists but is not computable, why would that change anything?
because principles as the basis of morality then go away.
making moral decisions becomes about looking at each _specific_ situation, and applying as much context as possible - instead of trying to say "well in general, X is bad".
- ikeboy 11y ago>because principles as the basis of morality then go away. I don't see why. Why can't I say "uncomputable function X is the basis for morality", and simultaneously believe that X satisfies principle Y? There's nothing about uncomputable functions that says you can never know a value, and principles are useful even if they aren't always correct anyway. >making moral decisions becomes about looking at each _specific_ situation, and applying as much context as possible - instead of trying to say "well in general, X is bad". Why can't an uncomputable function have a rule that X is bad? It might not be computable in all cases, that doesn 't mean it can't have rules.