Thursday, 6 February 2020

Good and bad

Are good and evil purely arbitrary concepts that humans made up? No one can predict the implications of any single decision we make and how it will ripple in the universe.

E.g. killing a baby might turn out to be good according to classical moral definitions (sacrifice one for the good of many) because if it was to live to adulthood it will become a ruthless dictator.

Or steal from this guy because he will use his money to buy from a corporation which uses slaves in China or Africa to make it's products.

It's like our decisions are based on flawed simulations and simplifications of the future and in fact it's pointless to label them at all.

Anyone gets what I'm trying to say?



Submitted February 06, 2020 at 09:26PM by ding3 https://ift.tt/2OxKziJ

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