That's a funny notion: beasts making ethical objections. — Merkwurdichliebe
I may love food and eat so much I become obese. This seems a matter of personal choice, but it is a poor example for my children’s health; if I recline on another’s couch or sit in his chair I am prone to break it; and my obesity is likely to lead to a lot of medical conditions that burden hospitals and cost taxpayers money. — Leghorn
I may wish to be a pauper, but then I am not contributing to the economy by buying things, and the health of our economy is a moral imperative for the nation. — Leghorn
I may cringe at having a needle stuck in my body— and what is more personal than your own body?—but if I don’t get vaccinated, I put at risk the health of everyone else I come close to. — Leghorn
how much is our behavior toward ourselves a matter of ethics? — Leghorn
I wouldn’t be surprised if you kicked a dog when nobody was looking, ‘cause you once verbally abused openly in this forum in the most vulgar tones an old woman I described who was wearing a mask in the supermarket in the early days of the pandemic. — Leghorn
any behaviour that involves others invokes ethical consideration.
All of which leaves open the issue of how one is to make such considerations. — Banno
That is also in relation to others. All of your examples are — DingoJones
Ought one to avoid obesity in order not to corrupt his children’s health, damage his friends’ furniture or overburden taxpayers? — Leghorn
If overindulgence is the source of one's obesity then one might do well to seek moderation. Those who show self control will be more capable of looking after themselves and others. — Banno
Doesn't this imply that there is an ethical aspect to self-improvement, undermining my basic account? More broadly, the virtue ethics I sometimes espouse is about the improvement of oneself; so on my own account is it an ethical position? — Banno
there's virtue in self control. If overindulgence is the source of one's obesity then one might do well to seek moderation. Those who show self control will be more capable of looking after themselves and others. — Banno
One might also consider what it would be like to live in a world in which everyone was obese. — Banno
One might consider what obesity implies in a world in which folk go hungry. — Banno
Those who show self control will be more capable of looking after themselves and others. — Banno
In the first the emphasis is on becoming a virtuous person. In the second, on following moral rules. In the third, on the results of one's actions. — Banno
Your trinity seems to me to really be a unity. — Leghorn
Would you agree that whatever is real exists, and that whatever is not real does not exist, and that, similarly, anything that exists is real, and anything that does not exist is not real? — Leghorn
Universe is real but we didn't know it exists for a very long time.
Therefore saying that something is not real because it does not exists is potentially false instead of factually false. — SpaceDweller
Well, ole Merkywurdy! Haven’t seen your name pop up in here in a long time. I assumed you had gotten yourself banned.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you kicked a dog when nobody was looking, ‘cause you once verbally abused openly in this forum in the most vulgar tones an old woman I described who was wearing a mask in the supermarket in the early days of the pandemic. — Leghorn
Animals can be included in the others to which one may relate. So, have you something to say? — Banno
That's pretty feeble. — Banno
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