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grantmuller | 1 month ago
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.
throwaway290|1 month ago
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.
?
> 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.
grantmuller|1 month ago
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.