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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Replying to @toxicpath
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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Replying to @toxicpath
But you can set other premises and measure objectively from that. So need to argue for well-being being the best one.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
what other promise could you set that would also be moral?
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Replying to @toxicpath
Are you using 'moral' as synonymous with 'good?' I think wellbeing is the best measure & argue so. Other ppl think a god exists.
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If they're right (& they think they are) human wellbeing is improved by doing what it says in this life. Heaven. Hell.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @toxicpath
Other philosophers would use other systems. Some cld be utilitarian & say enslaving some improves wellbeing overall.
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Others could be highly individualist or highly community-orientated & this all affects the premise from which we measure.
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I made this a while agopic.twitter.com/N7YFAZizAb
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Yes. That's fairly standard and I agree tho I also have the moral right to drink myself to death if I so choose.
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