@willbuckingham @Meaningness Huemer's paper http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf … is similar but more convincing/more flattering to my preconceptions.
@Meaningness Seems obvious to me but I find the literature on philosophical ethics indecipherable.
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@St_Rev All of it makes the eternalist assumption that if we could just find THE ANSWER it would solve all problems… Doomed from the start.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev The bizarre thing is that advocates of each ethical system agree it has profound flaws they have no idea how to fix, and yet… -
@St_Rev since they assume there MUST be a right system, their arguments boil down to “our fundamental flaws look less bad than yours.” -
@St_Rev “Consequentialism is at least coherent, even if it gives totally wrong answers most of the time”
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