Free will is not just the ability to make choices. If thats how you define it then even computers have free will, as choices are made by machines all ...
If you are coming to ethics with a collectivist mindset then you most likely have different issues you think ethics concerns. However, anything outsid...
Im making no claim about the existence of other beings, but about perspective. I believe the universe exists outside of yourself, however you only hav...
I completely disagree. First I have to state my belief that all values are equivalent, there is no difference between a moral or aesthetic value. From...
Im not sure what you mean by natural conditions. However, I will attempt to flesh out my belief further. All labels are an attempt to categorise the w...
In regards to objective or collective morals, none. In regards to individual action, everything. All actions are committed by indviduals. There is no ...
Experience is valued on a scale of preference. There is no reduction to principles but instead value is imbued within each experience by the individua...
Morality/Ethics is the study of the relationship between an agents values and actions. This is probably the most simplistic definition I can give. Dec...
We are born with value imbedded into our experiences. From the beauty of a desolate environment in rain to the misery of a sharp electric pain in ones...
There exists an issue with language that I think needs addressing to tackle the question of collective action. Scoring a goal is considered both an in...
I believe that there is no ethically relevent distinction between omission and commission. "ethically relevent", meaning that such a distinction shoul...
Ethics is fundamentally concerned with the movement between different experiences. Now in this topic we must talk about death, so that word loses so m...
I've made my posts perfect and you've barely responded to them. It's clear to anyone sensible that you read the first line I wrote and responded befor...
I don't believe I have a responsibility to help others. I am an ethical egoist. If you dont understand what that means then read up on it or read what...
I am an ethical egoist, I believe an action is good if it supports my self-interest. I value my own entertainment above people I have no connection to...
The discussion is about ethics, not legality. Clearly you cannot force everyone to give all their money to charity as the economy would collapse, but ...
Our individual action is the only factor we get to influence, hence this is the sole cause. Any cause outside of us is essentially already determined ...
The answer is clearly to pull the lever, if you value all humans equally. The idea of killing vs letting die is a silly distinction, the value of our ...
Scoring a goal is the result of many simulatenous and cooperative individual actions. Do you agree that people only have control over their own action...
We agree that ethics is concerned with action, however this means it is individualististic. You refer to cooperative actions that require multiple ind...
I think its just a semantic difference then. My idea of the term ethics is formed through how I concieve others using it, which is essentially describ...
Premise 3 does not accurately portray moral subjectivism. Moral subjectivists have moral preferences, not beliefs. Morality concerns these preferences...
I dont believe there is a difference fundamentally between aesthetics and ethics, as in the preference for orange juice is equivalent to a serial kill...
They entirely could construct their values to match their individual benefit, this is called ethical egoism and its the ethical philosophy I follow an...
A flaw in your reasoning is that it involves other people. Functionally, morality is individualistic since action happens on the level of individuals,...
Under that definition I think the base idea's we're presenting are similar. I personally use the word "experience" as it gets across an idea that we h...
I think any values we hold are preferences of equivalent type. Prefering rock music and prefering no murder are fundamentally the same process in term...
I think thats merely redefining principle. If someone can steal and improve their already good life then to do so in a way that allows them to avoid p...
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say with choosing to like something over another or the idea of a choice not being true. Morality can ...
I do not think psychology or social factors are irrelevent to ethics but that for the purpose of my specific argument I think construing it as a model...
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