Dan Minette wrote: > >> As an example, if you're in the middle of Faulkner's markless trackless >> unaxed wild and a puma finds and eats you, whither your human right to >> life? > > Since pumas do not have free will, they are not acting immorally. A human > who does the same would be. > A bad example. Pumas _could_ have free will (according to their own limited brain functions), and still it would not be Evil for them to eat a human being.
I think that designing a self-consistent moral/ethics system is not impossible, but eventually we will have to set arbitrary "weights", and two systems that are based on the same axioms but have different "weights" would end up with totally different and opposite moralities. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
