Rewards are about wellbeing whether material or heavenly. Punishments about suffering whether material or hellish. All human societies and some nonhuman promote kindness, caring, honesty etc. We thrived as a species by looking after each other so this is how our morality works
By the consequences of them. I am going to ask you to read Sam Harris on this. I am so bored of discussing it.
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Fair enough. I'm going to go to the library now to check out Harris's book. I'll just leave you with a though: you are now assuming consequentialism is the right system, a proposition that itself cannot be established through empiricism alone.
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Please understand it before trying to find holes. Yes, consequences can be measured empirically and must be to determine whether or not something helps or hinders wellbeing.
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