No, I didn't because I was born yesterday and have never considered morality before ever.
No, I don't see why knowing where my morality came from indicates nihilism. We already know it is there, that we didn't chose it and that we can't lose it without a frontal lobotomy. Trying to work down to what is the best for humans is something we'll be doing forever.
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But to suggest it comes elsewhere from human brains which are essentially a load of biological facts, is not supported by evidence so there are right answers even if we never reach them. The best we can do is go with SH's premise on the wellbeing of conscious creatures & reason.
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If morality is no more than a sense of what you ought to do that evolved due to selection pressures in past environments, and it isn't actually what you ought to do, then there is no reason for you to obey it. Upon what basis do you condemn the rational nihilist who ignores it?
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I don't know what you mean? Why does knowing that it evolved mean it isn't actually what we ought to do? The universe doesn't care if we torture each other to extinction but humans do. We have empathy, compassion and sense of justice.
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We'd condemn him on the grounds that we don't like to suffer & have empathy for others who suffer & anger to those who cause suffering & so we have written & unwritten rules about this. We haven't always extended our circle of empathy v far but consistent morality would do so
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But that condemnation is purely subjective. Why should he care what we think? Why should he extend the circle of empathy?
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It's not subjective. Try not having empathy.I took part in a test for psychopaths as a control subject when I was doing psychiatric nursing and had to look at neutral and upsetting images. My frontal lobe fired at pictures of people in distress. Yours must too. Can't you feel it?
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People who don't care for others are psychopaths, deeply depressed or too profoundly autistic to relate to others at all. If someone doesn't care, they don't. The rest of society has to enforce it. That remains the same wherever morality comes from. It happens now.
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I wrote some things ages ago when religious people kept saying this same thing and I posted them when they were being rude. Please excuse the tone and see the point?pic.twitter.com/DGDYhoMau3
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I c the point, but I'm not trying to argue for a theistically revealed ethics at the moment. I'm just trying to establish whether it is possible to have a normative ethics derived from pure empiricism.
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