Because 'ought' comes from human brains too and we don't choose to have morality so its appearance comes down to something that is.
No, that's just what we have to do when we get an outlier who is a danger to the rest of society. I don't know how to explain to you why we should care about other people if you don't already. I think you do tho & you couldn't turn it off if you tried.
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It is in our nature to care this way. But tribalism is also in our nature and the capacity for violence & cruelty. Hence the need to talk about, work out and persuade others of the optimal moral system which benefits all of us.
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If you want something bigger than us to come & validate those aspects of us that are humane, humanitarian and humanist, I can't help you. I can only tell you and provide sources for what is already there - the best aspects of our nature and argue that it should be extended to all
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The optimal human morality would be the system which maximises human wellbeing, minimises human suffering because this is what all humans want for themselves and is extended to all humans for that reason too. We can disagree and go our own way within that on how to live.
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There is no more to it than this. You can ask how do I justify this rationally to someone who doesn't want to do it and if this requires something outside shared human needs and moral foundations to justify it, I can't. This is a human morality expanded to all humans.
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Perhaps I'm reading you incorrectly, but it appears that you are conceding that empirical reasoning alone is insufficient to provide a rational argument as to why people ought to expand their circle of empathy too all humans. Do I have that right?
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??? I really can't explain any better than that, I'm afraid. If you still don't understand what I mean, saying it all over again is unlikely to help. I am speaking to what is optimum human morality which SH explains by saying it is akin to an optimum human diet.
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You're not following me for the reason religious people generally don't. You'd first need to accept, at least for the sake of argument, that morality is not something humans seek outside themselves but a quality of us, that we can understand as a whole load of 'is's & get right.
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I am perfectly willing to entertain the idea. What I can't understand is how all those 'is's' can possibly provide a rational argument to follow moral precepts that might, on occasion, be against our individual self interest.
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