Chris,
No I don't need to invoke morality, the price I pay for that is to have
to explain explicity what I mean by a "good outcome", what measure I
choose here to determine this, etc.
9/11 was a good thing to have happened, despite the perpetrators not
having "good" intentions, i.e. the perpetrators of 9/11 wanted to
achieve something that I would not have preferred. You are invoking the
concept of "moral quality of an act", not me.
"Moral philosophy"???. Well, I consider philosophy to be pseudoscience,
I already told you what I think about morality, so I don't have to tell
you what I think about "moral philosophy".
Morality in previous centuries has been invoked to justify the burning
of people at the Stake for blasphemy, no one at the time argued that
this was "immoral" based on a reading of all those philosophers. So,
it's of no use other than to condemn people we don't like. Not invoking
morality will force you to use rational arguments.
John is a good example, he doesn't read past the first sentence when I
wrote hat 9/11 was a good thing to have happend, because he has
programmed a concept of "morality" in his brain to create a mental
block in such a case. Whatever explanation I give has to be wrong
because his sense of "morality" (which he can't expand on), tells him
so.
Saibal
Citeren chris peck <[email protected]>:
Hi Saibal
When you say something is "good" you have some concept of morality in
mind whether you like it or not. Otherwise comments like 'this is
good' or 'that is good' are meaningless gibberish. In your case it is
very obviously consequentialism you have in mind because you are
attempting to balance outcomes in order to quantify the moral quality
of an act. Typically the fact an event like 9/11 can, through some
specious reasoning, be equated to a 'good' has been regarded as a
reason to abandon the kind of reasoning you are fumbling with. But I
suspect you are too stubborn to acknowledge a few thousand years of
moral philosophy and rather than stand on the shoulders of giants
prefer to swill around in the gutter. This is why John is right to
call you an ass. Your 'arguments' show no more moral wit than a
donkey.
--- Original Message ---
From: [email protected]
Sent: 28 August 2013 6:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The Nazi History of the Muslim Brotherhood
Morality is an ill defined concept, you can just as well invoke
religion. I never appeal to any notion of "morality", when I say that
something is "good", then I have some specific outcome in mind. I think
I did explain that.
An alien visiting the Earth may well conclude that the "right" thing to
do is to exterminate all humans from the face of the Earth, citing the
damage we do to the environment and the fact that we are not going to
be persuaded to change our ways. From an animal life conservation point
of view that decision can be argued to be the "right decision".
Citeren John Clark <[email protected]>:
A professional ass who goes by the pseudonym <[email protected]> because
he's understandably too embarrassed to give his real name wrote:
The modern history of Guatemala was decisively shaped by the
U.S.-organized invasion and overthrow of [blah blah]
Dear Mr. Ass
Once somebody knows that you said "supporting the Nazis was the right thing
for the Arabs back then" and "I believe that 9/11 was a good thing", why on
earth would anybody who was not drooling and locked inside a rubber room be
interested in your opinion of the morality of ANYTHING?
John K Clark
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