I think this part brings up the question of: if you had the chance to evolve beyond the existence of being human in an instant, would you do so? Some ...
If this is how you think scientists think about science, you don't have much insight into scientific research. Do you think that scientists don't trea...
In this sense, absolutely, there needs to be a definition of what morality is about. But how can you even use or discuss a concept that isn't defined?...
Emotionally based is to base your morality on "feeling something is wrong", as the title describes. It's a very corruptible morality definition. Kant ...
That isn't what I proposed though. I said they are parameters within the method that is used to define moral choices. I know of Sam Harris and some of...
Only those who do not know what science is or what the scientific process and its methods are would treat it like a religion. On both sides, those who...
Science also features discovery and exploration that can end up creating new fields. Philosophy is not the only thing that "creates" new fields, it ca...
Yes, but earlier I divided the method into one which carefully defines well-being before you calculate how that well-being is being applied to the sit...
Yeah, wasn't really arguing against, just wanted to try and clarify my point of view on the subject of morality. I don't say my method is tested, done...
No, for me it's a calculated choice about others and my own well-being. I do not define it by suffering/harm without calculation about in what way it ...
So it's not able to act as a moral guide in order for us to, as close as possible, conclude in what we generally define good morals as objectively as ...
Murder for selfish pleasure or personal gain... Does it maximize well-being for you and others combined? By the common standard definition of well-bei...
Look at the method I provided. You mean it's impossible to find out if an action is good or bad with that? Well-being is not only about physical healt...
Look at the method above, isn't that an option? Feelings can be corrupted and therefore, if you base morals on it, you essentially throw all moral val...
Calculate the maximized well-being for yourself and everyone else. The result might not be obvious, but I consider that "good morals". Justice has not...
My first post in this thread. Adjustments to that list of points: 1. Do what is positive for the assessed well-being of yourself and others combined. ...
This is the reason you don't seem to understand the method in the first place. What is and what isn't well-being is what is being assessed by the meth...
You miss that the deduction was about well-being. Are you saying "not surviving" is well-being? Because of this you need to first explain what well-be...
Let's say aliens came down and assessed the well-being of our species. With the method I presented, they would be able to act with good morals, even i...
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. It doesn't matter if I care or don't care, the moral system is still an objective assessment of what is ...
Because Kant didn't write his philosophical ideas based on modern understanding of science. Therefore, I would argue that while his ideas might be int...
Do you mean that ideas about moral should not include methods that are general to everyone? Then you are essentially saying that we don't need moral g...
That's not the point, the point is that there are people in the world that you might not even care about who is affected by your moral choices, theref...
I think that most who think about this in this way don't have enough insight into how molecular science works or how cellular biology works. It's a no...
This is close to the fiction of cosmic horror, but no, I don't think so. I think that the further away from the truth you are the more shocking the tr...
Point being; can you deduce what creates the most well-being for the self and others in a situation? I argue that you can, based on my list of points....
In that it follows something that is general for all people regardless of culture or situation. Well-being for someone else and the self, combined, do...
No, you can deduce what is good for you. I can deduce that the death of my father put me in a terrible position mentally, but I have grown as a person...
Feelings of the one making a moral choice cannot be a foundation for morals, only the concept of what is essentially good for you and others combined ...
This is the difference between those who aren't schooled in rational dialectics and those with philosophical methods of reaching conclusions. It's lik...
I'm not sure this is entirely true. It seems that abandoning reasoning with kids in favor of reward & punishment is the lazy route. It's giving up on ...
This is a very simplistic summary of criminal behavior and behavior in general. There's a lot more to this than just singular labels. The thing is tha...
From what I remember, I referenced my previous posts in this thread. If you didn't read those then I don't really know why you argue against me since ...
I do not disagree with what you wrote about color perception, it was merely a way to define my point. Maybe crude in its formulation, but it was not s...
Good luck, even if I believe this forum is a bit better for debating complex questions, I think there are many here who don't even know how to keep a ...
I think you stumbled into a line of arguments that wasn't about this specifically. It was an example to a point about deduction outside of opinion bas...
I'm not sure if you've read everything I've written in this forum thread, but I've pointed out examples of totalitarian states using restrictions as m...
It's not a proposed test of wrongness, it's a test of whether the opinion has solid grounds outside of the emotional reaction to something. If you tes...
Has to know what? That the spectrometer has that as its definition of blue? Here's another definition of pure math #0000ff. If you see it like #0000ff...
Also, be careful using this as a counter-argument to arguments that use science as a basis for its conclusion. I've seen lots of counter-arguments fro...
You start your post with a true observation of science, but you turn that into somehow trying to prove your validity in argumentation because you offe...
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