This is a bad argument. We shouldn't have ethics coz they could one day become corrupt & unethical. What's the alternative? Anarchism?https://twitter.com/almdean/status/887006390224605185 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I.e. we can have ethics, but we shouldn't have objective codes. Everything in application, and seen in the light of social/cultural factors.
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Replying to @almdean
I have objective codes - gender/racial/LGBT equality, freedom of religion & speech - I'll change them if given reason to.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Subjective codes, then. I don't disagree with promoting equality, but we can't rationalize them as "objective" just bc we feel strongly.
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Replying to @almdean
The universe doesn't care if we torture each other to death. There is no objective morality. We have to set our own premises.
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So we keep arguing our premises but we try to be consistent with them, not relative.
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