Thanks for understanding! And I mean to be fair I think I myself am simply a collection of cells. I think killing people is bad because it feels bad and I have empathy. But I can't really imagine it feeling bad for an early stage fetus, I assume it's not very aware.
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So something is only wrong if you feel bad about it? I'm not sure you're asking the right questions here...
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Well I think we have to dissect the question a little bit before we can understand each other. For example, what do you mean when you say "wrong"?
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Morally and ethically wrong, regardless of how we personally and subjectively feel about it.
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Okay but that still doesn't really tell me what you mean by 'wrong' - besides I guess telling me that whatever it is, you view it as existing outside of our feelings.
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If someone were to steal 1 million dollars of inheritance money from you, have you been wronged in some way? Or is it only wrong based on the outcome of the action? Let's say you never knew about the inheritance, so the outcome is total indifference. Have you still been wronged?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems your idea of right and wrong is contingent on the outcome of the action, disregarding completely if something is truly right or wrong.
Is this accurate, or could you better explain your difficulty here with dissecting the word "wrong."
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I don't use the word 'wrong' internally. I'm sort of a moral nihilist - I don't think morality is a coherent concept, and think everything we describe with moral language can be equivalently described by just talking about the situation.
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Sounds ... vague and vapid. Excuse my frankness.
If someone cuts in front of you in line at Starbucks, how do you react?
If 10 people cut in line in front of you at Starbucks, how do you react?
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In both cases I probably would get upset, feel bad, maybe say something, depends on how much of in a rush I am.
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Would you say that you've been wronged by someone else's actions regardless of how you feel about it? Was it wrong for someone else to cut in front of you even if you felt fine about it?
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