Psst, that's what objective ethics is, in the scientific sense. Of course, linking it to a god's impossible. :D
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exactly. but the killing of the victims would have still been wrong
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Because our brains are thinking so. If no-1's brain thought something wrong, that aspect of morality wld not exist
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if a psychopath kills everyone so that only his brain still had signals, then his mass murder would not be evil?
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Indeed, that I could never agree with. Ethics can't depend on bystanders, because agents are bystanders.
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Ppl who cared abt ethics would see the problem but if they didn't exist, neither would ethics.
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Not necessarily. It looks attractive, but I think there would still be ethics. It would just be inactive.
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I think that might be human arrogance. To think our concepts are important outsise us.
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i'd agree that the same principles could be discovered again if another social species much like us evolved.
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yes, the perpetrators and bystanders
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