Some people's entire existences are beneath the scope of real moral concern. This is the bullet I'm willing to bite to avoid someone's stubbed toe turning out to weigh more than some obvious massive and existential affront to human dignity and purpose.
Utilitarian moral reasoning runs the risk of violating common sense morality in grotesque ways depending on empirical utility observations. Non utilitarian moral reasoning elevates non universal concerns above utility. I think I am anti universalist on moral grounds ultimately
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Religion is right: to be a moral agent you have to have a soul in some sense. It's just wrong in the specific and arbitrary nature of its formulas.
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You can't save everyone as they are and give equal moral weight to them because there's no moral character to be saved that doesn't stem from higher order concerns. At best you can treat them like animals and mitigate harm. But this is a finite solution
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Entry into eternity is contingent on having higher order values otherwise there is no heaven that would not become hell, corrosive, totally dissolving of personality into accident and circumstance.
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In place of St. Peter there is Choronzon, and he doesn't ask you what your sins are, he just sets you on fire and waits to see if there's anything left.
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