Comment by throwaway290
16 days ago
Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end.
> To kill other members of our species limits the survival of our species
Unless it's helps allocate more resources to those more fit to help better survival, right?;)
> species limiting, in the long run
This allows unlimited abuse of other animals who are not our species but can feel and evidently have sentience. By your logic there's no reason to feel morally bad about it.
> Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end.
Who said anything about a formula? It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species, and not by any formula other than "this still seems to work to keep us in the game"
> Unless it's helps allocate more resources to those more fit to help better survival, right?;)
Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.
> By your logic there's no reason to feel morally bad about it.
And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.
> Who said anything about a formula?
In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)
> It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species
True
> keep us in the game"
That's a formula right there my friend
> Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.
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> And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.
or perhaps the concept of "self-limiting" is meaningless.
>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)
I have no idea what you're talking about, so I guess I'm not "one of them".
> That's a formula right there my friend
No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor.
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