peddidas
peddidas t1_islasbn wrote
Reply to comment by snotboy-gravel in Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3
I wonder what a mortal truth is... =D
peddidas t1_isla9ho wrote
Reply to comment by FingerTheCat in Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3
Yeah sure, and maybe it's also like a game theory situation: if you'd take others' food they'd probably start taking yours and it would maybe even become socially acceptable. Without the rule chaos would ensue as everyone would be taking someone else's food, so it's better to not do it.
peddidas t1_iu458uo wrote
Reply to How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language - fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language by fonliahea1994
Interesting, but wouldn’t it be better to do this with native bilingual speakers only? Isn’t this a bit like testing if step siblings have similar traits despite growing up apart from each other?