Actually, yes. Key thing to remember is that "objective" only means "independent of the observer," or some such.
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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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Yep. Luckily, it seems much of that work was done twenty years back. Virtue ethicists decided to try science.
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Not with you. Talking abt consistent human principles that span the ages and are pan-cultural.
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