Interestingly, the idea that peoples' preference judgments are worth listening to is a somewhat non-standard idea these days. The reason to question "empiricism the belief" is not so much "maybe science is fake" so much as "when/for whom might empirical truth be bad?"
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what does it mean to be a good homeless person? i dunno but I think we can distinguish between good and bad homeless people based on their behavior. I won't claim that merely being good is sufficient to prevent homelessness in some situations. that's orthogonal.
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Is it not more important societally to have lawmakers with strongly internalized moral codes than homeless people with strongly internalized moral codes? (funnily enough, I expect that the US government would be better if we replaced our lawmakers with the homeless)
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yes indeed it is, hence my prior statement about the need for individual morality as a pre-requisite for ethical society. but homeless people impact the lives of others too, through different means. still don't want to have rapist cannibal homeless dudes running around.
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Maybe if they burst out into song from time to time.
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