"Your moral compass is defined by the rules of whatever country you happen to live in?... You're an embarrassment to humanity."https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/807627859682594816 …
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increasing or preserving well-being. This can be extended to animals too.
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Yes but it's still humans who have to think it.
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true. To the greater extent.
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We evolved core moral emotions as social mammals and core needs. These enable a stable, consistent, very basic morality.
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I say this to religious people who argue that their morality is objective.pic.twitter.com/VB8WJPUDhy
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Nothing is objective coz universe doesn't care. Its what matters to us. Still need a premise even if just 'wellbeing matters.'
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the argument is that you can, even if roughly, measure and compare well-being. Medicine can be seen as a branch of this.
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Yes, once you set the premise that well-being is the yardstick, then you can measure objectively. Need that first though.
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