I would be more personally affected by my mother dying than by someone else's mother dying even tho I recognise they're of equal worth.
The situation I am describing is caring more if my mother dies than someone else's. Punishing my natural emotions wld be wrong.
-
-
If I had the power to give my mother rights & deny them to other women & did so, that would be morally wrong.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
seems to me things like your natural attachment are often left out of the utilitarian equations in such thought experiments
-
I'm saying so now. And I was when I said I'd be more personally affected but doesn't mean I think she has more worth
-
i think its an important & profound distinction and hard to comprehend is all i'm saying...don't go essex on me!
-
But I think you're making the same distinction I was. There's an emotional & an ethical component here.
-
Did you see the follow-on tweet which said what I am actually talking about?
-
yes. i'm not trying to disagree with you or say you were saying something different, just elaborating on the point...
-
I'm not sure what you were asking then when you said ' but is that moral?' Thought it was whether OK to care most abt loved ones.
-
i was asking in a philosophical/rhetorical way, not as a way to inspect your personal morals...
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
or being traumatized by pushing a fat man with your bare hands off a bridge in the trolley experiment, etc....
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
your second sentence is the point i would make. it would be wrong to punish your natural attachment.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.