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To expand on what I said: I suspect moral realism is false ("isn't ethic something we invent rather then something that exist?"). I don't know what to think of the notion of moral responsibility and moral desert, frankly they are the notion I am the most sceptical of. Oddly enough, it's not because of free will, I tend to be compatibilist, but because I'm unsure what is the purpose of moral responsibility at all, and how it works.

I have what I think is a good reason to believe that hedonism fails at the task it is trying to accomplish (I know that's an awkward sentence, but it would take me a longer post to explain what I mean and what my argument is, all this without relying on the bastardization of hedonism that has entered into common vocabulary). Contractarianism used to appeal to me, because it didn't need to assume moral realism, but I have become disillusioned with it.

But then, when I see suffering in the world, do I not feel repulse? Do I not think "this must end?" Yes, yes I do. It might be irrational. Or maybe there is something I am not considering. I will say, I make an effort to distance myself from any thoughts of moral desert.

At this point, I think maybe we need to become Nietzschean and rethink the entire think. I'm also toying with the idea of what I call an "Augustinian" ethic, where human fallibility is assumed at the start. But I don't know. I don't know.



bcj
@bcj

how hard can it be to produce a moral philosophy that is applicable and useful to apply to all peoples in all places across all time


Quidam
@Quidam

I have to be honest, I'm this close to giving up the notion entirely, and embrace moral error theory.