*sigh*No point wasting time on someone responding in bad faith to a post made 3 years ago — Maw
Insofar as human nature is real, insofar as human well-being is real, and insofar as human suffering is real (often in gratuitous forms), then it seems inescapable that moral realism is justified. — Maw
Wonderful example of bad faith.I need to learn to respond to people like him in the succinct way you do, instead of wasting my time on long-winded clarifications that fall on willfully deaf ears. — Pfhorrest
Hi all. What do you think of moral realism? Does it have things going for it, or not? What do you think are arguments in favor or against it? — mcc1789
Then what does it mean? — baker
Human wellbeing and human suffering necessarily take place at the level of the individual, for the individual.I would suggest we don't look at ethical theories based on human collectivity and immediately seek to atomize it, asking how this can benefit me, irrespective of how it impacts others. — Maw
Human wellbeing and human suffering necessarily take place at the level of the individual, for the individual. — baker
It is self-evident that one person's happiness can result in another person's misery. — baker
and I requested a clarification:Insofar as human nature is real, insofar as human well-being is real, and insofar as human suffering is real (often in gratuitous forms), then it seems inescapable that moral realism is justified.
— Maw — baker
because your formulation doesn't exclude a position like "Whatever enhances my wellbeing and diminishes my suffering is moral (morally good, morally right, just, righteous), even if in the process of this, other people or their property get hurt or damaged".This can go at least two ways: It can be an utopian, idealistic concern for everyone, or it can be a form of narcissism. Hence a request for clarification.
I don't see the point in individualizing ethical questions when wealth inequality soared during a global pandemic which disproportionately affected minority ethnic groups while working classes suffer for the benefit of Capitalists. — Maw
because your formulation doesn't exclude a position like "Whatever enhances my wellbeing and diminishes my suffering is moral (morally good, morally right, just, righteous), even if in the process of this, other people or their property get hurt or damaged". — baker
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