When people say "don't legislate morality" (which sounds stupid), what they really mean is "don't legislate the good life."
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Replying to @simplic10
When people think that society should *enforce* one conception of the good life, we can call that "perfectionism."
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JS Mill's harm principle is the proper rebuttal to perfectionism, and IMO it's a very good one.
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Getting back to the "minimum standards", these are things like "don't commit tort against random strangers" and "don't steal."
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These are not about maximizing utility; they are much more conservative & risk-averse. They're about cushioning against disutility.
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Things like partiality to family & friends also encoded in these norms. Usually, people in best position to help each other are kin/friends.
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Finally, we have good acts not mandated by any ethical rules of the kind discussed above; e.g., giving to charity for distant strangers.
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To sum up, I want to split ethics into: (a) detailed ideas of the good life (b) ethical injunctions (c) utility maximizing
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@simplic10 It's already split that way, yes? Virtue, deontology, consequentialism. So yr point is all are needed and none can be reduced2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness That WAS how I was thinking a while back, though. http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.ca/2011/11/ethical-pluralism-ugly-theory-that.html …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@simplic10 Great quote there from Gary Drescher! We were warehousemates, more-or-less, circa 1985. He was a paragon of virtue (seriously).
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