From: James Ganong (JGanong@webtv.net)
Date: Tue Jan 12 1999 - 13:22:00 MST
James Ganong wrote:
I believe that rape, murder & genocide are wrong, but I cannot point to
some Book & demand that sinners repent. At best I can point to economic
analyses that show these things to be inefficient, but what are the odds
that a rapist/murderer/genocide will be moved by such? I can only work
to make a world where they are wrong because *we make it so*, just as we
work to make our Transhuman/Extropian
goals real.
Okay, the basic fallacy here is that anybody knows what the Objective
Morality is. I ain't got a clue.
--quoth Eliezer.
If no one knows the Objective Morality, howdo you even know it exists?
This harks back to discussions on the nature of deity & its
'unknowability', wherein the existence of this unknown/unknowable thing
was taken for granted. I make no such allowance for the existence of
"The Objective Morality", if it is
unknown &/or unknowable.
You state that deriving the mass of a particle is
just as objective (& hence independently verifiable?) as your choice of
behaviors; please post the equations for this moral mathematics.
Glad to meet another Discworld fan!
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