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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Replying to @HPluckrose @toxicpath
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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Other philosophers would use other systems. Some cld be utilitarian & say enslaving some improves wellbeing overall.
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but this ignores the decreased well-being of the enslaved.
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Yes, they'd argue their sacrifice so much increased the well-being of everyone else that suffering reduced more overall.
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Also you could kill one person to save many with their organs & increase wellbeing more overall so that is morally better.
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Could also go w eugenics & argue the sick, mentally ill & unintelligent shld be allowed to die to improve human wellbeing overall
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I'd disagree w/ all that & go with wellbeing of every individual but this is not objectively right choice. Got to argue for it
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Admittedly, this is all pretty useless for us to determine, since Moral Philosophy started using empirics in the 50s.
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And their current working theory is virtue ethics, pretty much identical to Stoicism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics …
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Nooooo! Philosophy! *runs away*
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